Slower Pace of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
January 3, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
Why hasn’t healthcare benefited much, so far, from artificial intelligence? This piece argues that the limiting factor is the absence of large study sets of data. While that has some truth to it, factors such as cost and reimbursement, healthcare providers actually embracing disruptive technology, product liability, rapidly changing information ecosystems, and perhaps, most importantly of all, the delicate dance called the physician-patient relationship. And, then, there’s the matter of the ultimate object of healthcare being a living person, making this business significantly different than say, automobile-making (or any other kind of manufacturing where AI has proceeded quickly). MORE
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