Archive · 1 Oct 2026
Diagnostics Experts Urge Balance as AI Expands Clinical Support
Doctors think artificial intelligence will become very useful in medical testing.
It may help find unusual results in scans and other tests.
AI could also compare new scans with older ones.
In laboratories, it may help recognise patterns and check quality.
It might make appointments, reports and patient communication faster.
This could help patients receive accurate results more quickly and possibly at lower cost.
However, AI cannot take full responsibility for diagnosing or caring for patients.
Qualified healthcare professionals must continue to make the important clinical decisions.
Dr. S.S. Doda says AI will become important in medical diagnostics.
AI could assist clinicians by identifying abnormalities and prioritising cases.
In pathology and laboratory medicine, AI may support pattern recognition and quality control.
AI could improve scheduling, patient communication, reporting and other workflows.
Experts stress that AI should support, not replace, qualified healthcare professionals.
- Who
- Dr. S.S. Doda, Founder Director and Chief Consultant Radiologist at Dr. Doda's Diagnostics & Healthcare, and other diagnostics experts.
- What
- Experts discussed using AI to support medical diagnostics, clinical workflows and patient communication.
- Why
- To improve accuracy, speed, convenience and potentially costs while preserving human clinical responsibility.
- AI's clinical role
- AI should augment clinical judgement rather than replace it.
- Medical imaging
- AI may identify and prioritise abnormalities, assist with measurements and compare previous studies.
- Pathology and laboratories
- AI may support pattern recognition, quality control and workflow optimisation.
- Operations
- AI could assist with scheduling, call-centre queries, report workflows and quality checks.
- Patient benefits
- Potential benefits include better accuracy, faster turnaround, greater convenience and lower costs.
- Clinical responsibility
- Diagnosis and patient care must remain the responsibility of qualified healthcare professionals.