No hologram doctors any time soon: the future of AI in healthcare

While a robot doctor at the bedside is not on the horizon, data-driven digital health is transforming how we receive care - and society is still playing catch-up on the ramifications. In 2012, Professor Enrico Coiera, Founding Director of the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) at the Australian Institute for Health Innovation, published a paper titled The Dangerous Decade. In it, he warned that more information and communication technology (ICT) would be deployed into healthcare in the 10 years to 2022 than in the health system's entire history to date. "Systems will be larger in scope, more complex, and move from regional to national and supranational scale," he wrote. "Yet we are at roughly the same place the aviation industry was in the 1950s with respect to system safety."