U.S. Falls Behind China & Canada In Advancing Healthcare With A.I.

Two areas in healthcare stand to benefit the most from AI solutions: triage and imaging. Diagnosing medical images requires years of practitioner training, leading to a shortage of skilled radiologists, while volume of patient data has surged, resulting in high error rates. Leading healthcare investor Robert Mittendorff, Partner at Norwest Ventures, sees healthcare imaging as "the most productive area for AI to be placed." He explains that radiologists are trained to work with "a very standardized data set and curated output," both of which are critical to training AI to replicate human diagnoses. The accuracy of Enlitic's software is already on par with, and in some cases better than, trained clinician decisions.