Achieving better patient outcomes with artificial intelligence - TechEconomy.ng

Nurse Florence Nightingale may be most well-known as the British Army's lady with the lamp, assiduously conducting night rounds and attending to the wounded by candle light. But by demonstrating the link between poor sanitary conditions and high mortality rates in hospitals, it was her pioneering use of data collection and visualisation that still resonates today. In 2018, medicine faces a different set of challenges, with longer life expectancies and population growth increasing the number of patients suffering with chronic conditions requiring ongoing care. This has led to the cost of delivering health care increasing faster than GDP and quickly becoming unsustainable. Over 160 years might have passed since Florence Nightingale's day, but addressing these challenges still depends on data.