Opinion: AI and Open Medical Data Are the Keys to Solving Global Health Inequity

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize healthcare. Even now, AI diagnostic tools can assist lower-level health workers in making diagnoses that could otherwise only be made by highly trained specialists. AI software can read pap smear slides — freeing up pathologists to do other important, less routine work — and can analyze patient data and identify subtle trends that escape the human eye.