McKnight's April 30, 2020
In recent years, artificial intelligence’s potential to support healthcare advancement has seemed sky-high. Countless AI-powered tools have appeared on the market and offered to reinvent the way that providers and patients alike approach healthcare.
The digital EHR scribe Suki attentively listens to doctor-patient conversations and creates accurate clinical notes of consultations; Amazon’s Alexa has begun helping certain users to manage, reorder and take their prescriptions. In 2017, IBM’s AI-powered Watson even promised to help oncologists diagnose and treat cancer patients — although the tool has admittedly fallen short of the success that its proponents hoped it would have found by now.
Each one of these advancements is notable — and helpful — in its way; however, the most influential...