Digital Health: AI Meets Hippocrates

French medical innovation embraces digital transformation while maintaining humanistic values. AI systems developed at French institutions diagnose skin cancer from photographs with dermatologist-level accuracy. But implementation emphasizes augmenting rather than replacing clinical judgment. The French approach sees AI as tool enhancing human capability, not substitute for human care.

Telemedicine expansion during COVID-19 accelerated existing French digital health initiatives. Remote consultation platforms, developed by French companies, maintained care continuity during lockdowns. But French implementation emphasized maintaining personal connection—video preferred over phone, follow-up ensured, technology serving relationship rather than replacing it.

Digital therapeutics—software as medical treatment—emerge from French research. Apps for managing diabetes, depression, or addiction undergo rigorous clinical trials like drugs. This serious approach to digital health, requiring evidence not just enthusiasm, reflects French medical tradition of empirical validation.

The ethical challenges of medical AI receive particular French attention. How to ensure algorithms don't perpetuate biases? Who's responsible when AI makes mistakes? French philosophers and physicians collaborate on these questions, ensuring technological progress doesn't outpace ethical consideration.