MedCity News October 11, 2024
The scaling power of AI can simultaneously remove barriers to access, drive costs down system-wide and elevate the role of the human clinician so they can focus on human touch that their patients need.
The conundrum of American health care has become all too familiar: While spending outpaces other high-income countries, our quality of care often lags our peers – demonstrating no real correlation between high costs and outcomes. In fact, the U.S has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable conditions, and the highest rate of people with multiple chronic conditions.
Simply put, national health care costs are too high and rising too fast (projected to increase by 5.6% annually), care quality...