Three Reasons AI is 'Wildly Different' than Other Healthcare Technologies

While you're reading this opening sentence, AI is quietly disrupting the practice of medicine as we know it. In fact, AI is about to do what we hoped to see technology do in the last decade for the health industry: Empower organizations and clinicians to improve the health, outcomes, and experience of care for more people in less time and at lower cost. It's happening now in fits and starts, but, eventually, as AI becomes invisibly woven into the fabric of our work and lives, the practice of medicine will become astonishingly more efficient, effective, and, ironically--more human. And that's good news for the U.S. health industry that's known for its overachievement in inefficiency and consumer unfriendliness. It's also good news for clinicians that are legitimately skeptical of highfalutin promises of new technologies.