The Role of the Sharing Economy and Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Opportunities and Challenges

The scarcity of health care resources is a long-standing, persistent global issue that is increasing with the worldwide aging population [1]. Possible approaches toward alleviating this scarcity include applying a sharing economy model to the health care industry [2]. The concept of sharing has been incorporated into a range of commercial activities related to daily life, such as retail and transportation. The health care system has also been influenced by the globally growing trend toward a sharing economy [3] and will likely advance with these trends in the near future. Such foreseeable trends continually accompany the integration of innovative technology in the emerging big-data era, including artificial intelligence (AI). Decision making on global issues requires new technologies based on AI techniques [4].