The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Accelerated During the Pandemic. It's Here to Stay.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has disrupted numerous industries and prompted the addition of the suffix "-tech" to many of them: insurtech, fintech, agritech. Healthcare, in particular, has flourished because of AI, even before the pandemic, as machine intelligence makes scanning large populations for diseases feasible and drives a proactive approach to healthcare -- keeping people healthy instead of waiting for them to get sick. As the name suggests, "population health" focuses on cohorts over individuals, but there is more to it than that. For researchers in healthcare, population health relies on keeping track of the incidence of diseases in a variety of groups of people. For example, they might compare Covid-19 outbreaks among individuals of different demographics who reside in a range of ZIP codes.