The "inconvenient truth" about AI in healthcare

Trishan Panch^{1

2}, Heather Mattie^{2

3}, Leo Anthony Celi^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ 1Division of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.
² Wellframe Inc., Boston, MA USA.
³ 3Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.
⁴ 4Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA.
⁵ 5Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA USA.

Review

Trishan Panch et al. NPJ Digit Med. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 16:2:77.

doi: 10.1038/s41746-019-0155-4. eCollection 2019.

Trishan Panch^{1

2}, Heather Mattie^{2

3}, Leo Anthony Celi^{4

5}

¹ 1Division of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.
² Wellframe Inc., Boston, MA USA.
³ 3Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.
⁴ 4Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA.
⁵ 5Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Health policy; Public health.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests.

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