The decentralised US health care system is undermining attempts to adopt technology, including AI that may solve patient matching issues putting people in danger. Records for individuals are being duplicated by various medical facilities recognising them by different names, while people with similar names are being wrongly combined. Most hospitals have adopted electronic records but are not using a standard format, exacerbating confusion when medical histories are wrongly assigned or missing information. AI that combines patient photos with Northwell is one solution being tested, but it will need uniform adoption.
The decentralised US health care system is undermining attempts to adopt technology, including AI that may solve patient matching issues putting people in danger. Records for individuals are being duplicated by various medical facilities recognising them by different names, while people with similar names are being wrongly combined. Most hospitals have adopted electronic records but are not using a standard format, exacerbating confusion when medical histories are wrongly assigned or missing information. AI that combines patient photos with iris recognition is one solution being tested, but it will need uniform adoption.