Can AI solve what’s ailing healthcare?

I ask academics and investors driving the healthtech space

Healthcare is a personal experience that’s intrinsically part of our shared human experience. Even healthy people at some point see a doctor of some sort, get vaccinated for school or travel, be prescribed medicines, undergo tests, maybe even get stitches or surgery. Small wonder, healthcare is the fastest growing sector in our economy. Access to care, and the quest for preventative care and to cure the currently uncurable conditions that affect 40% of Americans are among the biggest problems facing medicine and the society it serves.

Technology in healthcare as in other user sectors has always been a R&D enabler helping researchers to work faster and collaborate...