AI & HEALTHCARE
Clinical AI for Universal Primary Care: A Practical Proposal for Coverage & Cost Reduction Clinical AI for Universal Primary Care A pragmatic blueprint to expand coverage to 100% of the population, reduce taxpayer burden, and improve safety—by letting AI handle routine care while clinicians focus on complexity, ethics, and human contact. Europe’s primary care struggles with aging populations, chronic disease, regional inequities, and workforce shortages. We propose a hybrid clinical–digital model in which validated, supervised clinical AI performs routine triage, diagnostics and prescribing, while physicians evolve into supervisors of digital cohorts , complex-case experts, and stewards of ethics and quality. Key Premise Reframe Scale Equity The goal is not to “replace doctors” but to replace the bottleneck : time-limited, place-bound routines that don’t require scarce human judgment. Every citizen can have a ...