Artificial intelligence, data science spell future of health care

"We would never have had the capability to understand the COVID-19 genome without the data science. It gave us, frankly, the computer power to understand what that looks like," Gorsky said in an interview with Jim Mazzo, president and CEO of Avellino. Powerful AI gave Johnson & Johnson better capabilities to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and then plan clinical trials with the sites that would offer beneficial insights into safety and efficacy, Gorsky said. When asked about the ongoing role of advancing technology, including AI, in health care and ophthalmology, Gorsky predicted a fundamentally changing landscape moving forward. "I think the health care landscape is going to be fundamentally changed in so many ways by the addition not only of artificial intelligence but of data science and connectivity of so many of these emerging fields becoming more and more ubiquitous across everything that we do," Gorsky said.