Offline-First AI Is the Only Kind That Makes Sense for Nigerian Healthcare

Tolulope Ajidahun A few years ago, as a newly qualified doctor, I sat at a computer at Alimosho General Hospital in Lagos and pulled up a patient’s history in under two seconds. No “connecting…” No waiting on the network. The hospital’s electronic medical record (EMR) system ran on a local server, reachable over the hospital’s own internal network.