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Anonymized medical data sharing is necessary for the advancement of medicine, but it requires a tremendous amount of trust from all stakeholders. Patients need to trust that their healthcare providers are utilizing their data to advance innovations that will help them in the future. Healthcare providers such as health systems and hospitals must trust external stakeholders to use that data for actual good. Transparency is what allows for accountability, with data sharers and data users
While medical AI has many potential benefits, there are challenges that have not been tackled yet. One of the major challenges is the limited generalizability of many AI algorithms. Applying a medical AI algorithm that is trained in hospital A may give unexpected results when applied in hospital B. Why does this happen? Certain parameters are different between hospitals. If hospital A has Siemens CT scanners and hospital B has Philips CT scanners, the images look different. If the AI al