There is not going to be an AI revolution in medicine until medical care becomes computerized. Electronic medical record systems were required some years ago b

There is not going to be an AI revolution in medicine until medical care becomes computerized. Electronic medical record systems were required some years ago but there were no standards so everyone is using different systems with few standards and they are not interoperable. So little of the data collected by the medical system is computerized (and a lot of the computerized data is in simple text fields where anything can entered with no common format) and hence can not be used to train AI's, and can't even be searched for precedent except within local systems. The NHS in the UK is in better shape, but in the US, even though businesses computerized many decades ago, clinicians resisted computerization and even now complain about it and it is not standardized. This makes the kind of large scale studies the UK is doing (500,000 participants) impossible in the US. The damage this will do to the US is very large scale and it will take decades to recover, if it ever does now that all the incompatible systems are embedded.