Using AI to Understand What Causes Diseases

Health care leaders are embracing AI. But by conducting an extensive review of case studies and research literature, we've found that their AI initiatives are predominantly focused on developing algorithms that can predict a problem such as cancer in order to make diagnoses better, faster, and less expensively. Rarely, are their organizations devoting resources to AI efforts aimed at understanding why diseases occur. To intervene as effectively as possible, both kinds of algorithms are crucial. To be clear, we are not downplaying the importance of predictive analytics to help diagnose patients.