Artificial Intelligence is Primed to Disrupt the Health Care Industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the prime technologies leading the wave of disruption that is going on within the health care sector. Recent studies have shown that AI technology can outperform doctors when it comes to cancer screenings and disease diagnoses. In particular, this could mean specialists such as radiologists and pathologists could be replaced by AI technology. Per an article by the Association of American Medical Colleges, "a New England Journal of Medicine article predicted that'machine learning will displace much of the work of radiologists and anatomical pathologists,' adding that'it will soon exceed human accuracy.' That same year, Geoffrey Hinton, PhD, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who also designs machine learning algorithms for Google (and who received the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, in 2019), declared, 'We should stop training radiologists now.'"