Experts discuss future of healthcare innovation for industry, providers, patients

With artificial intelligence and augmented reality popping up around every corner in healthcare, players in the industry are beginning to reflect on how tech innovation in healthcare works, where it works, and whether these technologies themselves actually work.

At The Economist’s Healthcare Forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts this week, experts sat down to talk about the future of healthcare innovation for the industry, providers, and patients.

Technology has already changed the face of healthcare, Carla Leibowitz, head of corporate development at Arterys, a company that specializes in combining cloud computing and AI in the medical imaging space, said. For AI specifically, clinical trials and diagnostics are some examples of areas in which AI has already made a big...