Healthcare AI Safety Gap · Don't break patients
    Peer-reviewed / officialJul 2023·US

    ~795,000 Americans a year harmed by diagnostic error

    Johns Hopkins / BMJ: the scale of the problem AI is meant to solve — and the stakes.

    ~795,000
    deaths or permanent disabilities a year

    What the research found

    Johns Hopkins research estimates about 795,000 Americans a year die or are permanently disabled because of diagnostic error (371,000 deaths; 424,000 disabilities) — the enormous problem AI is meant to help solve.

    Why it matters for providers

    The upside of getting AI right is real and huge, which is precisely why getting the deployment wrong is so costly. Balance, not opposition.

    Original source
    Johns Hopkins / BMJ Quality & Safety
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