Six months for one meeting — then everything about how her hospital uses AI changed
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Recorded live at the All-Ireland Clinical AI Congress in Belfield, this episode features Dr Amrita Kumar, Radiology and AI Clinical Lead at Medica and a consultant breast radiologist who has built hospital-wide AI implementation from scratch — first in the NHS, now in the UAE.
What you can take from this episode: 🔹 Don't rush to a pilot — set up governance first. Dr Kumar discovered her hospital's departments were each adopting AI in isolation; the fix was getting every stakeholder (data governance, IT, digital, clinical teams) around one table from the start, not cascading through them one by one. 🔹 Build a short, clear pitch for executive buy-in — and let leadership do the cascading. A five-slide deck and one meeting with her CEO was enough to unlock introductions to every other stakeholder needed. 🔹 Secure funding through research partnerships before real-world rollout. Partnering on national research projects built internal infrastructure and expertise while bringing in funding, well before any live implementation began. 🔹 Design one consistent governance and evaluation framework, even across different vendors and workflows. The same setup, evaluation, and monitoring approach was successfully scaled across five hospitals using different AI tools for different tasks. 🔹 Watch for automation bias, and build in permanent checks. Less experienced clinicians' agreement with AI shifted measurably over time — the fix includes periodic "no AI" reporting sessions and training staff to read confidence scores, not just flagged regions. 🔹 Know where AI genuinely helps today. With roughly 90% of scans normal, AI's clearest current value is confidently triaging those cases so limited specialist time goes to the 10% that need it.
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