We’ve already lived with AI applications for a good number of decades. These include a chess-playing computer system that was able to beat the world chess champion in 1997, widespread use of AI assistants such as Siri and Alexa, targeting of advertisements online, autonomous vehicles such cars and drones, language translation, facial recognition, robotic surgery and many more.

There is little question that AI will rapidly challenge the way the healthcare industry works: from searching a person’s medical records for early signs of disease, to increasing the accuracy of cancer screening, to AI medical assistants, to more rapid review and denials of insurance claims, AI’s impact on our healthcare system will come hard and fast. As a result, the patient-doctor relationship will be changed forever, not always for the better.

A 2023 Pew Research Center survey of public view on AI found that 60% of Americans would be uncomfortable if doctors relied on AI in managing their healthcare. Seventy-five percent felt that AI technology is being adopted too fast. Many raised concerns about changes in personal relationships and about health record security. A majority of participants expressed their belief that utilizing AI in healthcare will reduce medical mistakes and will lead to treating minority patients more fairly. They felt that AI could have a positive role in screening for skin cancer, but that it would have a negative impact on monitoring pain medication. Seventy-nine percent were against the use of chatbots in mental health care.

Another 2023 study of patients’ attitudes toward AI¹ found that preference for a human clinician or an AI driven diagnostic treatment plan was evenly split in 2,472 broadly diverse participants. However, when their providers actively supported the use of the AI developed tool, participants were more likely to accept it. This points to the importance of physician interaction, validation and assurance of accuracy in driving the acceptance of AI supported healthcare.

As AI methodology and applications move into the healthcare sector, we’re facing a rapidly expanding set of new challenges with data privacy and security. Since AI systems need to be trained on massive datasets, the secure and de-identified exchange of such datasets between healthcare and proprietary AI technology presents a major challenge. Current regulations have not kept up with this rapidly changing field and need to be updated in order for AI to have a positive place in healthcare.

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The RK360® Cloud Health Record gives patients and family caregivers a more complete picture of their health status than the fragmented patient portals attached to clinic and hospital health record systems. The RK360® App equips family caregivers and patients to own, control and share information with any U.S. health care provider without surveillance by or disclosure to third parties. Access to care is simplified by the RK360® App, allowing users to match with providers who fit their needs, schedule on-site visits, get telehealth consults, and exchange pre- and post-visit information.

Finally, the RK360® Cloud Health Record may improve the quality of care for the user. This is because the RK360® Record gives providers a more complete 360-degree view of a patient’s health than any one provider’s electronic health record system. By promoting data-driven health care decisions, the RK360® Record avoids needless treatment errors, encourages personalized rather than one-size-fits-all care and may, in turn, improve health care.

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