The Spotify/iTunes Model For AI In Health Care

Artificial intelligence (AI) in health care has become the subject of both great promise and great hyperbole. Beyond buzzwords and a plethora of venture capital investments, AI and other mathematical techniques are beginning to emerge in a second wave of domain-specific systems of intelligence. The key missing factor has been a business model in the payer-and-provider community that enables the "best" (aka: most validated, most clinically proven, most workflow-integrated) models to drive an economic value both to the care paradigm and to the cost centers of health care data storage and analytical processing. As the cloud storage wars have entered health care, a question has emerged: Beyond security and the improved economics of cloud storage versus physical storage, what will drive revenue for cloud vendors? Furthermore, how will horizontal cloud vendors prove the validity of AI offerings to impact the business needs of providers and payers such as improved quality, decreased workload and better outcomes?