Health IT Analytics April 15, 2019
Jennifer Bresnick

Access to large volumes of quality data is vital for the success of artificial intelligence, but the healthcare industry has a lot of work to do before data becomes a truly valuable commodity.

Few adages sum up the challenges of bringing artificial intelligence to the healthcare industry better than Amara’s law, which states that people tend to overestimate the effect of a new technology in the short term but underestimate the impacts in the long run.

Closely correlated with the equally popular Gartner hype cycle, Roy Amara’s insight into the ups and downs of innovation shows the dangers of thinking short-term about technologies that have huge potential but may not yet offer clear and immediate return on investment.

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Big Data, Insurance, Provider, Technology
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