AI's Healthcare Promise Will Serve Patients -- and More

Scanning today's headlines about Artificial Intelligence reveals an atmosphere of optimism tempered by caution. Artificial intelligence presents a huge opportunity for everyone in the value chain: health providers and organizations, vendors, regulatory agencies, and, perhaps most importantly, patients. It's driving stats like these: Sixty-two percent of respondents in a 2019 survey by OptumIQ report "having implemented an AI strategy--an increase of nearly 88% from 2018 (33%)--while 22% report being at late stages of implementation." But in these early days, the way forward can be unclear, muddied by too many choices, too many voices, and too much-sunk cost in legacy systems and thinking. To gauge how industry leaders are using or planning to deploy AI, and to collect the best thinking on the most urgent opportunities for AI in healthcare in the near term, we asked experts and influencers to weigh in.