Women see five or six doctors to figure out menopause symptoms. A top Novartis exec says AI could finally connect the dots
Source: Fortune ·
At Fortune’s MPW Summit, top health care leaders said midlife care is too fragmented, and AI could help women put the pieces together.
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For many women, menopause symptoms like sleep problems, joint stiffness, hot flashes, and more don’t bring just one doctor’s appointment—they bring multiple. On average, women see “five or six doctors to try and figure out all the little parts and pieces of what’s going on with your body” once they hit perimenopause and menopause, Paula Schneider, CEO of the Institute Advancing Women’s Health, said Tuesday at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, Calif. “And there’s no holistic health,” she said. Reshema Kemps-Polanco, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of pharmaceuticals company Novartis US, sees a possible fix using AI. “One of the greatest things I think that AI can do in health care is to help connect the dots and help connect the dots sooner,” she said during the panel, which was sponsored by Novartis and moderated by Fortune’s Ellie Austin. “Many times we try to do these things in isolation … and you make a dent here, you can make a dent…