AI and Machine Learning: Disrupting Healthcare

The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to improve care and outcomes, lower the cost of care, and increase patient and provider satisfaction is fast-tracking these disruptive technologies for significant growth in healthcare in the immediate future. In a recent Healthcare IT News/HIMSS Analytics survey, about 35% of healthcare organizations plan to leverage artificial intelligence within two years – and more than 50% intend to do so within five years.* These technologies can categorize and analyze huge amounts of both structured and unstructured data to glean clinical insights to improve individual and population health through better diagnoses, disease pattern identification and treatment methods. They can improve infrastructure, workflows and data management, and other tasks and processes – increasing productivity, consistency and quality, and reducing costs and errors. They can improve the provider-patient experience, allowing physicians to spend more time with patients by automating time-intensive tasks like medical image analyzation, data entry, and procedure and condition monitoring.