Mind the Gap: AI, Health, and Digital Equity

An algorithm trained on hospital data from the Netherlands doesn't know what it means to run a ward in western Uganda. And that gap—between where technology is designed and where it lands—is where the real harm lives.

As deepfake technology makes it impossible to trust what we see and hear, the implications extend far beyond fraud into mental health, emergency response, and the very foundation of public health communication. The erosion of reality itself has become a health crisis.

Sixty-six years after Ledley and Lusted computerized medical diagnosis, physicians are still hesitant to embrace decision support tools. But this time, the reluctance might actually be justified.