How are AI and ML shaping the future of healthcare?

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), the healthcare industry is continuing to undergo a transformation. Valued at US$10.4bn last year, the global artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare market is expected to continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.4% from 2022 to 2030. And with breakthroughs such as a report that AI could be used to identify conditions such as Parkinson's disease years before the appearance of physical symptoms, there appears to be a healthy future for the relationship between technology and medicine. Researchers at MIT have developed an artificial intelligence model that can detect Parkinson's just from reading a person's breathing patterns while they are sleeping. Parkinson's disease is hard to diagnose, researchers say, because it relies primarily on the appearance of motor symptoms, such as tremors, stiffness, and slowness, which can often appear several years after the disease onset.