As someone who has worked at a Radiology PACS with petabytes of medical images under management, this is 100% accurate.
You might have images, but not the diagnoses to train the AI with.
In addition, there are compliance reasons, just because you manage that data doesn't mean that you can train an AI on it and sell it, unless of course you get explicit permission from every individual patient (good luck).
I do believe that with enough effort we could create AI specialist doctors, and allow the generalist family doctor to make a comeback, augmented with the ability to tap into specialist knowledge.
Technology in the medical industry is extremely far behind modern progress though, CT images are still largely 512 by 512 pixels. It's too easy to get bogged down with legacy support to make significant advancements and stay on the cutting edge.
You might have images, but not the diagnoses to train the AI with.
In addition, there are compliance reasons, just because you manage that data doesn't mean that you can train an AI on it and sell it, unless of course you get explicit permission from every individual patient (good luck).
I do believe that with enough effort we could create AI specialist doctors, and allow the generalist family doctor to make a comeback, augmented with the ability to tap into specialist knowledge.
Technology in the medical industry is extremely far behind modern progress though, CT images are still largely 512 by 512 pixels. It's too easy to get bogged down with legacy support to make significant advancements and stay on the cutting edge.