The Health AI Northstar
Jennifer Goldsack and René Quashie
Overview
- The health AI field is attracting billions of dollars in investment, but still lacks a shared definition of what a successful AI-enabled healthcare system actually looks like, and why that absence is a problem worth solving now.
- The op-ed makes the case that the purpose of healthcare does not change with each new technology, and that the same goals that have always mattered, patient experience, population health, cost, clinician well-being, and access, should anchor how AI is built and deployed.
- DiMe CEO Jennifer Goldsack and CTA Vice President René Quashie make the case that the purpose of healthcare does not change with each new technology, and that the same goals that have always mattered, patient experience, population health, cost, clinician well-being, and access, should anchor how AI is built and deployed.
- They apply the Quintuple Aim, a framework that has guided health system improvement for nearly two decades, to five concrete scenarios showing what meaningful AI adoption looks like in practice.

