Dr. Friedman is a physician turned product manager with 20+ years building enterprise software and leading digital transformation. He writes about the intersection of technology, human behavior, and healthcare, where solutions directly impact lives.
When was the last time you trusted a machine with a life-or-death decision? If you’ve ever had an ECG, the answer is: already. Since 1982, ECG machines have printed automated interpretations, computers reading your heart and offering a clinical opinion long before we called it AI.
“The Second Eye” opens a five-part series. It traces healthcare AI to its real origins, in radiology, cardiology, anesthesiology, and other place, decades before today’s hype. I’m tired of reading that AI in healthcare is failing. Its not! It started long before Silicon Valley noticed.