AI Future in Healthcare and Public Health

Health Informatics (HI) job postings are disappearing while Health Data Science (HDS) keeps booming. Even roles labeled "informatics" now list tasks centered on analytics, dashboards, and AI pipelines. In my forthcoming academic paper, I use BERT-based semantic analysis to show how today's definitions of HI and HDS have become nearly indistinguishable — and why that linguistic convergence fuels confusion in hiring and management.

Nikolay Lipskiy, MD, PhD, MBA The American healthcare system stands at a critical inflection point. While AI has traditionally been confined to narrow clinical applications, analyzing medical images, processing laboratory results, or assisting with specific diagnostic tasks—the converging forces reshaping medical care delivery demand a fundamental evolution. Artificial intelligence must transcend its clinical tool origins to become the essential governance layer that orchestr