How Machine Learning is Transforming Healthcare at Google and Beyond

But when it comes to how machine learning (ML) might benefit humanity, there's almost no field more promising than healthcare. Hardly a month passes when we don't hear about a new disease that machine learning models have learned to tag faster and more accurately than trained clinicians. ML is being used to help doctors spot tumors in medical scans, speed up data entry, and respond automatically to hospital patients' needs. These ML-powered breakthroughs come at a crucial time, as the shortage of doctors and specialists in the US and worldwide continues to grow. As our demand for doctors surpasses supply, we may well find ourselves depending on technology to help fill in the gaps.