How Should Healthcare Make Use of AI? Ask the Patient

Technology, human ingenuity and deep pools of financial capital are aligned in an important mission: bringing artificial intelligence (AI) to global healthcare. If investor enthusiasm is any gauge, the mission is advancing quickly. No fewer than 300 healthcare AI startups have closed funding deals in the last five years--nearly 45 percent of them first equity rounds by startups just entering the space.1 In several respects, however, the mission is generating too much heat and too little natural intelligence. Technological assets on AI's frontier are often over billed in the media and poorly validated.