VentureBeat September 30, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied across the healthcare spectrum — from administration to patient interaction and medical research, diagnosis and treatment.
What is healthcare AI?
Healthcare AI is the application of artificial intelligence to medical services and the administration or delivery of medical services. Machine learning (ML), large and often unstructured datasets, advanced sensors, natural language processing (NLP) and robotics are all being used in a growing number of healthcare sectors.
Along with great promise, the technology offers significant potential concerns — including the abuse that can come from the centralization and digitalization of patient data as well as possible linkages with nanomedicine or universal biometric IDs. Equity and bias have both also been concerns in some...