This is why artificial intelligence will transform health

In today's post-EHR health environment, the amount of data generated by digitization is staggering. Dozens of systems feed data across healthcare organizations daily, and IDC predicts that health data volumes will continue to grow at a rate of 48% annually.[1] Yet, despite advances toward becoming a data-rich and data-driven industry, medical errors are still the third-leading cause of death in the US alone.[2] Though artificial intelligence (AI) is still in early stages of adoption in healthcare, its exceptional ability to manage big data makes it a powerful weapon in the fight against medical errors. But don't worry--robots aren't about to replace clinicians anytime soon. Humans and machines are complementary, as humans have ingenuity and emotional intelligence, for example, while machines are better at tackling repetitive, high volume tasks where accuracy is vital.