Healthcare IT Today December 17, 2019
Over the next five years, healthcare and life sciences firms will ramp up their digital transformation efforts, driven at least in part by AI and data analytics tools, according to a recent research report. In fact AI, in particular, should revolutionize the nature of work in one in three health systems within a few years, the researchers say.
According to the report, which was written up in HIT Infrastructure, market research firm IDC predicts that 30% of all business and clinical decisions made by these companies will be informed if not dictated by AI technologies. IDC projects that worldwide spending on AI for diagnosis and treatment will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 24% and should hit $4.9...