How to meet patient demand for AI in health care

The past 10 years have given us some truly innovative technology; now, healthcare providers are beginning to figure out the best ways to use it. They would do well to follow other industries by listening to consumers – in this case, patients – to determine the best way to incorporate this technology into their workflows. In this guest post, Vinay Seth Mohta, a managing director at an artificial intelligence engineering services firm, offers three patient-focused AI applications that might be a good place for healthcare executives to start. Accenture's "2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health" found that three-quarters of the patients surveyed use technology to manage their own health. In addition, patients said they were eager to incorporate a new kind of technology into their health care: artificial intelligence.