BOSS Magazine Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Applications

Artificial intelligence is better than us at analyzing data. We're all familiar with IBM Watson, the AI which won a round of Jeopardy and is now free for anyone to use to crunch data. But you may not know that the 160 man hours it would take a human to analyze genomic data from both tumor cells and healthy cells takes Watson 10 minutes to process. Just as robotics and automation has found a natural home in manufacturing, doctors and researchers are finding artificial intelligence has hundreds of applications in their industry. From telling the difference between cancerous and non-cancerous cells to diagnosing rare genetic conditions using facial recognition algorithms and refining everything from hearing aids to artificial hands, artificial intelligence healthcare is finding its footing. There are a lot of barriers for full integration of the technology.