Council Post: AI May Cure The Ills In Healthcare Tech

Ashish Kachru is President and General Manager of the GuidingCare division of HealthEdge Software. As our healthcare system struggles toward a model in which consumers are at the center of the equation, technology is playing a rapidly increasing role in smoothing their way through the ecosystem. Consumers are demanding a better healthcare experience, but there's a massive collision coming between the exabytes of global health data and consumer health and insurance illiteracy. "Interoperability" describes a set of American regulatory initiatives that are in play right now and will drive change in the industry for years to come. As president of a healthcare technology company, I believe them to be as significant as any changes to the system made in this century, including the introduction of HIPAA privacy regulations and the Affordable Care Act.