Artificial Intelligence in Primary Health Care: Perceptions, Issues, and Challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Artificial intelligence (AI) is heralded as an approach that might augment or substitute for the limited processing power of the human brain of primary health care (PHC) professionals. However, there are concerns that AI-mediated decisions may be hard to validate and challenge, or may result in rogue decisions.

Objective

To form consensus about perceptions, issues, and challenges of AI in primary care.

Method

A three-round Delphi study was conducted. Round 1 explored experts' viewpoints on AI in PHC (n=20). Round 2 rated the appropriateness of statements arising from round one (n=12). The third round was an online panel discussion of findings (n=8) with the members of both the International Medical Informatics Association and the European Federation of Medi

SUBMITTER: Liyanage H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6697547 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature