Questions for healthcare artificial intelligence to answer

The pace of artificial intelligence technology adoption in healthcare varies considerably. Some medical establishments are undertaking small incremental changes; others centers have seen several years of innovation; and a proportion remain tied to the traditional healthcare model of the 1990s. This is the view of Dr. Ameet Bakhai, deputy director of research at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Dr. Bakhai was expressing his views in advance of a major conference that is set to look at artificial intelligence in healthcare: Digital Healthcare Transformation Summit 2017, which takes place in London in December. A key theme is that although there are more advanced machines, from ultra-high-resolution imaging instruments to surgical robots, these tend to remain fully controlled by humans rather than with decisions made by artificial intelligence.