WHO warns Europe’s AI health governance gap is becoming irreversible
Hans Kluge opened his speech in Lisbon with a number, which is not how the World Health Organization usually does this.
“Let me start with a number: 8%,” the WHO Regional Director for Europe told delegates on 15 July. “That’s the share of countries in the WHO European Region that have a health-specific AI strategy. Just 8%.”
Against that, nearly two-thirds of the region’s countries are already deploying AI in diagnostics, and half have introduced AI-powered patient chatbots. One in 12 has a strategy to govern any of it.
“That gap, between deployment and governance, is the defining challenge of AI in health right now,” Kluge said. It is a framing that will sound familiar to anyone following Europe’s wider AI adoption problem, though here the currency is not productivity.
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