Council Post: Three Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Healthcare – And Six Principles To Ensure Its Success

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used to revolutionize healthcare for some time, but all the signs suggest that AI is poised to completely take the medicinal world by storm over the next few years. Governments -- from the U.K. and the U.S. to Germany, Qatar and China -- have published strategy papers on AI in healthcare and backed up their words with multimillion-dollar funding. The WHO recently issued its first global report on AI in healthcare. And global equity funding in AI health start-ups has risen quarter on quarter since the end of 2019, reaching a record $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2021. All this buzz is a reflection of the enormous range of healthcare-related activities in which AI can have a big impact.