Accenture: AI, blockchain will have ‘transformational’ impact in next 3 years

Fierce Health Payers June 6, 2019
Heather Landi

Forty-one percent of healthcare executives believe artificial intelligence will have the greatest impact on their organization over the short term.

The majority of healthcare organizations are experimenting with at least one of these emerging technologies: distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, extended reality or quantum computing.

And 68% of healthcare executives believe the combination of these technologies will have a “transformational” or “extensive” impact on their organizations in the next three years, according to an Accenture report.

Nearly all (94%) of the surveyed healthcare executives said they believe emerging technologies have accelerated the pace of innovation over the past three years.

However, while technology investments have progressed, healthcare organizations must do more to meet rising consumer and employee expectations...

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