Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Healthcare - Sigmoidal

Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning are taking the healthcare industry by storm. They are not pie in the sky technologies any longer; they are practical tools that can help companies optimize their service provision, improve the standard of care, generate more revenue, and decrease risk. Nearly all major companies in the healthcare space have already begun to use the technology in practice; here I present some of the important highlights of the implementation, and what they mean for other companies in healthcare. The best metaphor I found describing the importance of AI is presented by Bertalan Meskó in one of his articles. It seems that the question is not "if" but "when" AI will revolutionize the healthcare. It took some time for the medical community to accept the stethoscope.