The paper chase and the big data arms race.

Currently, much of the world's IVF data is stuck in paper charts, owned and sold by private IVF clinics, with images taken on different microscopes, and cropped any number of ways to remove patient data. Image data (if collected at all) is almost never connected to the IVF lab KPI data, which is almost never connected to the clinical data. Artificial intelligence (AI) - systems that program themselves to listen, think, predict, anticipate, prognose, diagnose, and RESPOND better than people - are the future of reproductive medicine. [Extracted from the article]