Health AI Accenture

There has been a lot of hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), its capabilities, and its potential, but what exactly is AI and how it will impact health? Accenture defines AI in health as a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform administrative and clinical healthcare functions. Unlike legacy technologies that are only algorithms/tools that complement a human, health AI today can truly augment human activity. These technologies can include natural language processing, intelligent agents, computer vision, machine learning, expert systems, autonomous cars, chatbots and voice recognition. AI is expected to generate nearly $150 billion of value for the health economy.