Project Management for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – the ‘Sambias’ Case Study

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the functioning models of the entire society, with inevitable scientific, professional, and economic implications. These digital transformations are impacting any sector, even the very critical ones, such as healthcare. In these dynamics, it is essential that IT developments must be carefully considered also from an organizational and managerial point of view, especially when dealing with delicate processes such as those operating in the healthcare sector. This research, based on the case study of the ‘SAMBIAS’ project, aims to highlight the main problems and the possible relative solutions in the field of project management related to the development of AI in healthcare, in this peculiar case with a focus on medical imaging. The study has uncovered a fundamental aspect, namely the crucial role of knowledge management, from both the semantic and the organizational point of view. The research provides specific scientific and managerial implications, relating on the one hand to the methodological flag of clinical discernment and on the other hand to the need for continuous interaction between project stakeholders as a prerequisite for valid and reliable semantic development of the AI platforms.