Data Pulse

For many of us, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are abstract terms that have become popularized for their roles in automation and robotics. In healthcare, uses of AI emerged several decades ago and have significantly expanded to the present day. Data Pulse presents a current snapshot of uses of AI in healthcare, including essential opportunities and challenges. The discussion explores its impact at many levels of the healthcare system, from researchers and entrepreneurs to physicians and patients. With easily understood language, Marcetich defines common terms of AI and shows us how various AI tools are influencing research, clinical, and administrative areas of healthcare. The reader will learn how current discoveries build on the decades of previous work in biology, robotics, and computer science, along with the unforeseen ethical and legal challenges they have provoked.Data Pulse is a story of important partnerships and strategies that are reshaping modern healthcare through AI. It will inform our view of the past, present, and rapidly evolving future of AI in healthcare.