What Chris has raised are serious problems with AI. Yesterday, I was listening to Lebanese scientist who is also a politician. That person was describing AI and he said AI is one of the information technology innovations and is good, fast and to a certain extent and accurate in number crunching. He did not speak about it in health, but it is good in helping in diagnosis.
I may add, if HIFA is mainly for developing countries, can developing countries afford AI (forget about the free sites, that are useless)? Can the Internet in their localities help? (it does not help me). Does the AI have penetration in health care centers (hospitals) to justify investment? for sure it is not in Jordan, based on information the heads of hospitals gave.
I prefer to go to a human doctor rather than a machine to diagnose me as I have multiple health problems.
With kind regards
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, PhD FIAHSI
HIFA profile: Najeeb Al-Shorbaji recently retired from the World Health Organization (WHO), where he has worked since 1988 in different capacities. He was most recently Director of the Knowledge, Ethics and Research Department at WHO headquarters, Geneva. Previously he was Coordinator for Knowledge Management and Sharing in EMRO (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office), Egypt. He is a member of a number of national and international professional societies and associations specialised in information management and health informatics. He has authored over 100 research papers and articles presented in various conferences and published in professional journals. He is also a member of the HIFA steering group. Email: shorbajin AT gmail.com https://www.hifa.org/support/members/najeeb