This is a preview of the April 9 edition of Access Health—Tap here to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox on Thursday mornings. Good morning. AI has created a bit of a false dilemma in health care—maybe you’ve noticed it in your watercooler conversations or in the news cycle. Share them with me at a.kayser@newsweek.com, and have a wonderful week. I was just sharing some of my thoughts and concerns with Geoff [Martha] and he brought up some of the things that they were doing in other parts of the world that we felt we could replicate to have an impact in our very own community. We’re helping to bridge that gap between suitable housing or gainful employment and their health status, and that what’s making this [program] very different. Because health care is local, we’d want the partner to have that commitment [to addressing social determinants of health] and the openness to learn and apply new things. Martha: I would echo that. This is a preview of the April 9 edition of Access Health—Tap here to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox on Thursday mornings. AI either saves us or destroys us. It makes care more efficient or it compromises quality. It replaces clinicians or relieves them of all suffering. It personalizes recommendations or strips the system of personality, entirely. The either-or fallacy can prevent us from designing solutions that reconcile competing priorities instead of forcing a choice between them. So today, I’d like to offer a middle-ground case study: a story of a health care initiative that relies on both AI and a human being. In this instance, neither could fully succeed without the other. Our story starts in Camden, New Jersey, a city across the river from Philadelphia. The life expectancy for Camden residents is roughly 16 years lower than their neighbors in towns less than seven miles away.
This article is an AI-assisted summary. All facts and figures are drawn from the original report: https://www.newsweek.com/medtronic-built-a-care-platform-for-ghana-now-its-working-in-new-jersey-11814125