AI is reading chest X-rays faster than ever before.
Aidoc's January 2026 FDA clearance covers 14 conditions at 97% mean sensitivity and 98% mean specificity. AI triage tools are prioritizing worklists in real time, flagging critical findings in seconds, and promising to close the widening gap between imaging volume and radiologist capacity. The vendor dashboards look impressive. The benchmark numbers look convincing.
But in March 2026, the patient safety organization ECRI published its annual watch list and named "Navigating the AI diagnostic dilemma" as healthcare's single biggest patient safety risk of the year. Not data breaches. Not medication errors. AI diagnosis.
That is not a coincidence. That is a warning the field has not fully absorbed.
