A digital health physician's musings on artificial intelligence

Editor's note: Kanupriya Agarwal, MD, is Digital Health Physician, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This blog originally appeared on OliverWyman.com Although healthcare's first use case of artificial intelligence was nearly 70 years ago, its real focus and impact has only recently being actualized. Quantifying artificial intelligence's direct impact through both key performance metrics and via the explosion of data analytics within the last decade has advanced implementation of machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions. But pinpointing artificial intelligence's potential to shape the health market is yet to be determined.