Healthcare: AI That Saves Lives

The impact of AI will be felt in both developed and developing countries, especially where primary care physicians are in increasingly short supply, notes Mr. Kalis. "How do we create new primary care delivery models where machines and humans work together to save labour and produce better patient outcomes?" he asks. Health-tech innovators that are using AI to deliver automated medical advice may soon have an answer. In the UK, Babylon Health and Your.MD are digital health assistants that perform triage and diagnosis of patient illnesses based on data input into an app. Both work with the National Health Service in different ways but both companies say their apps are helping make general practitioners' (GPs') lives easier by handling simpler cases and giving them time to focus on more complex ones.