– The investment will allow Syapse to expand its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, making it more efficient to uncover …

In this News Insight from HIT Consultant, Dale Van Demark discusses how we may be on the brink of a revolution in healthcare driven by AI. For more insights on how healthcare providers can enhance the patient experience through technology today, download our in-depth guide. An Accenture report was released at HIMSS18 with a bold prediction: the healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) market may hit $6.6 billion in the next three years. In 2014, that number was just $600 million, meaning the AI healthcare market could see an eleven fold increase in value in less than a decade. The survey showed that as of 2018, one in five U.S. consumers have already used healthcare services "powered by artificial intelligence," and many are open to AI clinical services, like home-based diagnostics (cited by 66 percent of respondents) and virtual health assistants (61 percent).

Editor's Note: Alex Meshkin is the CEO of Flow Health. Flow Health provides longitudinal care plan coordination and chronic care management services built on top of its platform, which is The Operating System for Value-Based CareSM. We have seen incredible progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years, especially through the application of deep learning algorithms. AI systems will get even better as more data is collected, so faster data gathering and better data integration should lead to smarter and more useful AI systems. Recently I described a new class of system that I believe will take form and leverage AI and combine workflow automation to improve how care is delivered -- I termed this: "Intelligent Clinical Decision Automation."