Planning on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare Accenture

In the last few years, there has been a growing presence of artificial intelligence technologies or AI in healthcare. Though AI will not displace human relationships in the delivery of care, it will provide for an unchartered transformation of the healthcare industry. As highlighted in Trend 5: The Uncharted from the Accenture 2017 Digital Health Tech Vision, such a potentially massive change will demand a dramatically different governance structure from what we see today. The recent announcement of the Software Pre-Certification Pilot Program by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one step in that direction. The FDA's stated purpose of the program is to balance the reduced time and cost of market entry for digital health against patient safety and quality of care.