AI in health care - Australia in danger of lagging behind
The challenge is that there is no single agency in Australia that covers AI
AUSTRALIA risks being “left behind” as an innovator in artificial intelligence (AI) in health care, says a leading expert who is calling for greater investment and regulatory rigour in the field.
Professor Enrico Coiera, Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University, said investment in AI in Australia was lagging.
We are not seeing commensurate investment here in Australia, and many in the field feel we are rapidly being left behind, to become adopters rather than innovators in AI, Professor Coiera said.
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Professor Coiera also leads the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare which brings together more than 90 partners to translate frontier artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into real-world health services.
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