Tech-Ignored: How AI Innovation Is Widening The Digital Health Divide

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OpenAI’s health platform and a misread medical record highlight both the promise and the risks of AI in healthcare.
Interviews in Mobile, Alabama show many daily users of digital tools do not even recognize them as AI.
The article warns that low digital literacy and weak product design could concentrate AI health benefits among healthier, tech-savvy users.
Without intentional design and policy, AI healthcare may widen the digital health divide and leave high-burden communities behind.



