Monday, November 20, 2017

Plenty of buzz for AI in healthcare, but are any systems actually using it?

Plenty of buzz for AI in healthcare, but are any systems actually using it?

Plenty of buzz for AI in healthcare, but are any systems actually using it?

It doesn't take much to grab hospital executives' attention these days-just casually mention the words "artificial intelligence" and watch their eyes widen at the thought of the technology's untapped possibilities. In some ways, that promise is very real, but as several researchers have pointed out, AI has yet to make a practical impact in healthcare because it hasn't shown it can be useful to clinicians.
It doesn't take much to grab hospital executives' attention these days-just casually mention the words "artificial intelligence" and watch their eyes widen at the thought of the technology's untapped possibilities. In some ways, that promise is very real, but as several researchers have pointed out, AI has yet to make a practical impact in healthcare because it hasn't shown it can be useful to clinicians.

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