Is AI transforming health care? Should AI transform health care? That was the focus of the recent World Economic Forum report, 7 Ways AI Is Transforming Healthcare, and the white paper, The Future of AI Enabled Health.

The projected AI-facilitated transformation ahead, according to the report authors, is both administrative and clinical. On the administrative side, AI will likely provide administrative relief for both front office staff and clinical professionals and improve predictive tools for population health. On the diagnostic side, AI can facilitate better and faster precision diagnostics and enhanced imaging. And AI is likely to affect emergency response, decision support at the point of care, and integration with culturally “traditional medicines.”

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