3 ways AI will improve health care in 2019

As far as artificial intelligence is concerned, one industry most likely to be most disrupted is the health care industry.

Effective application of AI is projected to result in annual savings of $150 billion in the US health care industry.

The AI health market is projected to grow more than 10 times within the next five years.

And why will AI have such an impact on the health care industry? Facts like the ones below are why:

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1. A rise of AI in medical imaging: One AI trend to watch out for in the health care industry is the rise of artificial intelligence in the medical imaging.

Besides the fact that AI will result in improved accuracy of medical imaging diagnosis, it will also make it much easier to personalize treatment planning and transmit results. Not only will this enhance productivity in the radiologist community, but profitability can be attained sooner than expected.

2. Rise of AI involvement in health care communication: Whether it is patient-physician communication, or communication between different health care organs, the health care industry’s communication problem is one that can be most easily and quickly addressed by AI, and that we can expect to see serious developments in as early as 2019.

, According to research by Accenture, effective application of AI to medical dosage error reduction can result in a savings of $16 billion for the health care industry by 2026.

Medication and dosage errors are one of the leading causes of unanticipated but easily preventable death or serious injury in the health care industry today.

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