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AI systems must expand beyond simple alarms to meaningfully improve clinical outcomes.
Basic AI alarms unlikely to improve outcomes; leaves open optimal design and validation approaches for clinical use.
JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, and Bon Ku, MD, MPP, program manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), discuss what it will take to design AI systems that meaningfully improve health for the JAMA+ AI Conversations podcast.
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Yulin Hswen (2026) studied this question. Artificial intelligence systems must be intentionally designed to go beyond basic clinical alarms in order to meaningfully improve patient health outcomes.
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