How AI can enable better health care outcomes

Artificial intelligence isn't just a tool for pure tech -- health care providers can use it too. Clinical practice and AI go together, three top health care leaders at national enterprises agreed during a panel at Transform 2021 hosted by VentureBeat general manager Shuchi Rana. Using data to reduce medical waste and over-testing can help hospital systems save money, said Dr. Doug Melton, head of clinical and customer analytics at Evernorth, a subsidiary of insurance giant Cigna. "Before, we had unsupervised learning, and it was harder to do. You had to be prescriptive in your hypotheses," Melton said.