3 Myths About Machine Learning in Health Care

Machine learning will dramatically improve health care. There are already a myriad impactful ML health care applications from imaging to predicting readmissions to the back office. But there are also high-profile, expensive efforts that have not achieved their goals. In our collective roles as the CEO of a care delivery analytics business, tech-driven clinicians, and the leader of tech innovation at a major health system, we have developed and used dozens of ML applications. Many of these have succeeded, but others have not.