Healthcare's Artificial Intelligence Market May Hit $6 Billion

An Aethon Inc. TUG robotic courier carries supplies through the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 19, 2015. The move to population health and a greater acceptance of machines to help deliver medical care to patients will help turn artificial intelligence into a $6 billion market within three years, according to a new analysis. Accenture says healthcare's artificial intelligence market will reach $6.6 billion by 2021 . That's a jump from $600 million in 2014, according to the consulting firm, which released a new report at HIMSS18 annual meeting this week in Las Vegas. The Accenture analysis looked at investments, revenue growth, acquisitions in the artificial intelligence space, executives said.