AI in Healthcare March 6, 2020
Countless studies have explored AI’s impact on healthcare providers and the patients they serve—but what about the financial side of things? Looking purely at the bottom line, is AI a wise investment?
That’s exactly what the authors of a new study published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research hoped to explore.
“In times of value-based healthcare and also because of the high share of the healthcare industry in the overall economy, economic impact assessment is of increasing importance,” wrote first author Justus Wolff, MSc, Technical University of Munich in Germany, and colleagues. Such assessments, the team added, play “a crucial role for all stakeholders in healthcare.”
Wolff et al. conducted a systematic review of cost-effectiveness studies focused on AI...