How artificial intelligence will change health care

For the past several years, I have been a consultant and adviser on telehealth, virtual reality in health care, and artificial intelligence. I spent the last week with my colleagues in the Silicon Valley at a Stanford-Google symposium on human and artificial intelligence in health care, as well as other health-care technology meetings. Let me assure you that movies and television that suggest doctors are going to be replaced by AI technologies are incorrect. I've had conversations with venture capitalists who think that will happen, and it is clear to me that they do not understand how health care really works. The mundane and repetitive activities that drive doctors and their staffs crazy may indeed be relegated to AI, but machines will not be making life and death decisions.