The computer will see you now: six examples of AI in healthcare

As an industry defined by the relationship between patient and carer, at first glance it may seem incongruous to nudge healthcare towards a robotic future. In fact, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to completely reshape the health industry, offering greater support to human capabilities and allowing healthcare organizations to deliver higher-quality services more efficiently. AI is a broad term for computer systems that can "think" and act like humans. They can sense their environment, absorb information, learn from past experience, make decisions and take action. AI has transformative power for two reasons: the explosive growth in data, coupled with huge computational advances and processing speeds.