How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine

Q. Can A.I. help to lower America's soaring health care costs? The No. 1 line item of health care cost in America is human resources, which has recently grown -- as of December 2017 towering over retail -- to be the leading job source for our economy. By augmenting human performance, A.I. has the potential to markedly improve productivity, efficiency, work flow, accuracy and speed, both for doctors and for patients. Q. Can you talk about the area of medicine where A.I. shows the most promise? A. There are a few key areas. One is machine pattern recognition to promote the rapid and accurate reading of medical scans, slides, skin lesions, the pickup of small polyps during colonoscopy, and much more.