Kaiser Permanente’s new head of AI on ‘two fundamental shifts’ the technology will enable

An increasing number of health systems are hiring executives, usually physicians, to head their artificial intelligence efforts – often chief AI officers, fully at the C-suite level. The complex technology with great potential is in the midst of an explosion in healthcare and many industries.

Kaiser Permanente, with its 40 hospitals and 600 medical offices, created the role of vice president of artificial intelligence and emerging…