Managed Healthcare Executive June 8, 2018
The explosive growth in the availability of big data for healthcare applications and advances in machine learning offer significant opportunities to alleviate some of the most challenging problems ailing the healthcare system. The question, though, is how far will these technologies—loosely grouped together under the rubric of artificial intelligence or AI—reshape the delivery and quality of healthcare in the future?
Like other revolutionary advances in medicine (such as the development of modern sanitation practices in the 19th century), AI is a tool to be integrated into healthcare practices, rather than a panacea unto itself. Viewing AI in this manner, a few key opportunities, and limitations, are apparent.
Opportunity #1: Early detection and triage
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