AI has yet to revolutionize health care

Investors have honed in on artificial intelligence as the next big thing in health care, with billions flowing into AI-enabled digital health startups in recent years. But the technology has yet to transform medicine in the way many predicted, Ben and Ruth report. "Companies come in promising the world and often don't deliver," Bob Wachter, head of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told Future Pulse. "When I look for examples of … true AI and machine learning that's really making a difference, they're pretty few and far between. Administrators say that algorithms from third-party firms often don't work seamlessly because every health system has its own tech system, so hospitals are developing their own in-house AI.