Cecilie Jakobsen: Where Will AI Get the Truth About Fertility From?
Cecilie Jakobsen, CEO and Founder of wawa fertility, shared on LinkedIn։
“We’ve just come back from the AI Fertility conference, where everyone was talking about what AI will be able to do for fertility. Our presentation started with a question I think we need to answer first: where will it get the truth from?
Take one fertility journey. For the patient and the clinical team, everything is connected: history, medication, scans, lab work, decisions, and outcomes. The digital version of that journey is often scattered across an EMR, a lab system, images, PDFs, messages, and spreadsheets.
Even when we have the data, we tend to capture what happened, but not why. A medication dose changed from 225 IU to 300 IU. Was that because of a hormone result, follicle growth, the patient’s history or a clinician’s judgement? If we don’t know, what exactly are we asking AI to learn?
Most fertility AI today looks at something and makes a prediction. The next generation will participate in care alongside clinicians, embryologists, coordinators and patients. It could help bring the right information into a decision and capture the reasoning as part of the work. That is how we start building the dataset we will need in the future.
And this is where I think many clinics will fall behind. Buying AI tools is relatively easy. Building a connected record of care that those tools can understand and learn from takes longer, and it needs to start now.”

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