John Ferguson (The Ferguson Clinic) has posted “Personal Medical AI: A Framework for Individual-Based Healthcare Monitoring SubTitile: Personal Medical AI Framework” on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Current healthcare AI systems compare patient data against population norms, potentially missing clinically significant deviations that are abnormal for specific individuals. We propose a framework for personal medical AI that establishes individual baselines, learns patient-specific patterns, and detects deviations meaningful to each patient rather than comparing against population averages. This paradigm shift from population-based to individual-based monitoring requires addressing technical architecture, clinical integration, the radical transparency problem, impacts on the doctor-patient relationship, and equity concerns. Personal medical AI represents not a replacement for clinical care but a transformation of the patient-AI-clinician relationship that requires careful implementation to preserve therapeutic value while enabling unprecedented longitudinal insight.