How hospitals are using AI to treat ICU patients: 3 things to know. Intensive care units across the country are increasingly implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help sort through patients' medical data and predict and diagnose illnesses, NBC reports.

Intensive care units across the country are increasingly implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help sort through patients' medical data and predict and diagnose illnesses, NBC reports. "Critical care is essentially this interface between humans and technology," said Peter Laussen, chief of critical care medicine at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, according to the report. "The amount of data streaming from the patient in the ICU is huge." More articles on artificial intelligence: UnityPoint Health invests $1M in AI for lung analysis Cincinnati Children's AI system reduces patient screening time by 34% Children's National Health to apply AI to study ICU transitions