Industry Voices--Here's how AI is impacting the delivery of cancer care right now

Few ideas in the last decade have provoked as much excitement, or as much confusion, as the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology. From the first moment we announced our plans to apply our Watson technology to help oncologists, we were met with a stark dichotomy of emotion. The headlines ran the spectrum from hype (your next doctor might be a robot!) to cynicism (5 reasons AI in healthcare will fail). Today, five years into the journey to help improve cancer treatment through data, analytics and AI, while we're still very much in the early stages, I'm happy to report that the real-world progress is far more encouraging than either of those early storylines would suggest. In fact, not only is AI being used to support physicians in the delivery of cancer care today, it is producing quantifiable results while charting a course for the future.