AI was supposed to save health care. What if it makes it more expensive?

Mount Sinai Hospital last year switched on an artificial intelligence program to search the hospital's records for evidence of malnourished patients in its wards. NEW YORK -- Last year, Mount Sinai Hospital switched on an artificial intelligence program to search the hospital's records for evidence of malnourished patients in its wards. The numbers it turned up were eye-popping: 20 percent more cases were diagnosed than in the previous year. Around the same time, Barbara Murphy, chief of the renowned health system's department of medicine, was helping to develop another AI program, to predict whether diabetic patients are at near-term risk of kidney disease and to help prioritize specialist visits for those who are. One of the early findings, according to Murphy: "We probably need some more nephrologists."