How Doctors, Researchers Are Already Using A.I.

As you've seen, artificial intelligence holds great promise for change in the health care field. In many ways it already is creating that change. Here are some examples of AI's impact today. An Israeli company called Zebra Medical Vision uses AI to identify women who have tell-tale signs of the bone disease osteoporosis but don't know it. Zebra's computer algorithm crawls through X-rays in electronic medical records looking for small fractures in the spine's vertebrae that may have gone unnoticed but are characteristic of the disease.