Kingsley Ndoh, Founder and CEO of Hurone AI, shared on LinkedIn:
” ‘The goal is not to remove humans from cancer care. Rather, to make it easier for patients and their families to reach the right humans at the right moments when they need them the most.’
That line from Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of Digital Medicine Society and Hurone AI’s board member Dr. Lee Fleisher’s new Op-Ed piece captures a central challenge in cancer care.
Patients do not experience cancer care as a series of isolated visits. They experience it as one continuous journey: a new diagnosis, referrals, appointments, medications, side effects, insurance questions, transportation, test results, treatment decisions, and the uncertainty in between.
As Lee and Jennifer put it: ‘America has invested enormously in advancing cancer science and treatments. But scientific progress alone is not enough if patients cannot reliably navigate the care that already exists.’
When navigating cancer care becomes fragmented, the burden often shifts to patients and families when they are least able to carry it. Likewise, hospitals often have several blind spots on what their patients are going through, or the help they have gotten between those clinic visits.
Supporting these patients and their families go through an increasingly complex system, giving care teams the visibility they need, identifying what may fall through the cracks, and connecting them to the right clinical or support resource before a barrier, or a missed symptom becomes a crisis is exactly what we are solving.
Grateful to Lee and Jennifer for advancing this very important conversation.”
Title: Industry Voices – AI should help cancer patients survive the healthcare system
Authors: Jennifer Goldsack, Lee Fleisher
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