Going the distance with AI - Pacific Knowledge Systems

Nothing seems to inspire a headline in health quite like Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ever since IBM Watson moved from the Jeopardy studios to hospitals and research centres, the industry and world have been abuzz with excited optimism about the revolutionary impact AI would have on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a myriad of diseases. One of the flagships of this brave new intelligent world was MD Anderson, the cancer centre within the University of Texas who announced in 2013 that they would be using IBM Watson to help eradicate cancer. Finally we were living in the future where technology could help solve some of the most pervasive and devastating diseases on the planet; doing what thousands of doctors, researchers and medical professionals have spent decades working to solve. AI was not only living up to the hype, it was exceeding it.