Toby Cosgrove: Why We Need Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Toby Cosgrove has glimpsed into the future of medicine, and it is decidedly digital. The physician-businessman, who served as president and CEO of the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic for more than a decade before transitioning out of the role at the start of 2018, tells Fortune that artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality technology like Microsoft's HoloLens, and similar advances are critical for keeping pace with the evolution of medicine. "When the Cleveland Clinic was formed almost 100 years ago, the total amount of knowledge in health care doubled every 150 years," Cosgrove told me in March during Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. There are now 800,000 journal articles written every year. Every human genome has 3 billion data points in it.