Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

A couple of weeks ago I attended a lecture at the Oxford Martin School given by Prof. David Clifton, who is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford. The lecture was thought for a wide audience, therefore it left many open questions, but was a great description of David's extraordinary work. The introducing point was that healthcare spending has increased over time (on percentage of GDP) almost everywhere from 5% to 20% and it is (or will be) unsustainable for long periods. Without entering evaluations of governments' past decisions, one key point is that we are still trying to provide standard healthcare to a change word. For instance, in the 90s 99% of the hospitals had a four-hour stay in the E&A room, while this percentage has decreased to 85% today.