Algorithms will out-perform Doctors in just 10 years time - Dataconomy

The power of Algorithms to calculate, contemplate and anticipate the needs of patients is improving rapidly and still has no sign of slowing down. Everything from patient diagnosis to therapy selection will soon be moving at exponential rates. Does that mean the end of doctors? To better understand technology's ever-growing role in healthcare, we first have to better examine the potential of tools and timelines that we are working with. A recent study done at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, showed that AI isn't about Humans versus Machines. They trained a Deep Learning Algorithm for identifying Metastatic Breast Cancer, interpreting pathology images.