How AI is Helping to Prevent Physician Burnout - AI Trends

So much of a physician's workload includes repetitive, tedious tasks involved in researching diagnoses and analyzing patient data and imaging. On top of increasingly demanding administrative and regulatory burdens and electronic health records (EHR) hassles, it's no wonder physicians are burning out in record numbers. Experts in artificial intelligence (AI)--a form of machine learning in which computers can be trained to recognize patterns in large swaths of data--are hopeful that AI will be a key part of reducing physicians burdens and saving them time and energy. "We live in an age where a lot more data can be generated than a physician can really analyze," says Mark Lambrecht, PhD, director of the global health and life sciences department at SAS, a North-Carolina based analytics company that offers solutions to healthcare providers and payers. He believes that AI can step in to help.