AI in the Hospital Setting - Challenges and Trends

This article is based on a presentation at the 2017 AI Applications Summit conference in Boston, entitled "Artificial Intelligence in the Hospital Setting" (slide deck embedded below) delivered by Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella – updated with recent insights and interviews from Emerj's podcast and AI Opportunity Landscape data. In 2017, the wealthiest countries spent anywhere from $4,246 to $10,224 per capita no healthcare. In the case of the US, studies show that administrative costs have led to this high cost of healthcare. Some in the healthcare industry believe that artificial intelligence can reduce inefficiencies endemic in hospital administration in its delivery of care. Today, AI has only nascent traction in healthcare, even in the most developed countries – but the technology shows promise for diagnostics, computer vision-related tasks, and some administrative and data management-related tasks.