How Machine Learning Can Improve Healthcare, Medicine And Human Well-Being

Investors hope for billion-dollar health-tech "unicorns". Amid such talk it is worth remembering that the biggest winners from digital health care will be the patients who receive better treatment, and those who avoid becoming patients at all.' – The Economist Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to transform many aspects of our lives. The potential gains in healthcare are enormous. Although investment in digital healthcare start-ups has doubled since 2013, progress is slow, in part because of regulatory and cost hurdles. Machine learning in healthcare means that organisations can benefit from evolving technological capabilities.