In principle, AI tools have the potential to increase both the volume and quality of care that health systems can deliver – from optimising the prescribing of medicines and giving clinicians the leverage to assess more cases than they could otherwise manage, to providing services that simply do not currently exist in a given context. The potential is real and in some settings already being realised.
This joint endeavour by K4DD and PATH provides a thought-provoking introduction by international experts Tariq Khokhar and Bilal Mateen to the appraisal of AI for health programmes, and highlights the emerging issues and debates within the field.
It aims to frame how programme advisers should approach an artificial intelligence-based tool in health care, spanning both decisions related to funding and procurement, and the public and private sectors. Sections in the guide focus on:
- What does this framework cover?
- At what stage might you encounter a tool?
- Section 1: The problem
- Section 2: The data
- Section 3: The technology
- Section 4: Implementation
- Section 5: Governance and accountability
- Section 6: Economics and sustainability
- Section 7: Hard-won lessons