A.I. starts to deliver in the enterprise, at last

Computers soon could deliver smarter healthcare to patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The two Boston-based institutions in May announced a 10-year collaboration to develop and integrate artificial intelligence throughout Partners' clinical operations. Partners hopes A.I. can improve patient outcomes and increase clinician productivity. The nonprofit healthcare system plans to first use A.I. to enhance diagnostic imaging, with intelligent systems being developed to detect, for example, even minute changes in tumors and then use data analysis to determine optimal treatments tailored to each case. This is the future of medicine, but it's been a long time in the making.