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The future of healthcare is closer than we think

The Independent·Kees Wesdorp·27 days ago
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DeepHealth is a Business Reporter client How advances in AI, imaging and automation are enabling earlier disease detection, easing workforce pressures and expanding access to care globally. A decade ago, we talked about AI in healthcare the way we talked about self-driving cars: inevitable someday, but not immediately practical. Today, what’s changed isn’t just the algorithms. It’s the economics. One reason we can now deploy AI at scale is that compute power has vastly increased and the cost of computing is vastly cheaper than it was even five years ago. Hardware efficiency has leapt forward, accelerated by innovations and technology advancements across the ecosystem. This matters because healthcare doesn’t adopt technology because it’s cool. Healthcare adopts technology when it’s clinically trustworthy, operationally scalable and economically viable, and where there is a deep need for innovation. A deep need to deliver better outcomes, reduce the workforce burden and reduce the cost of care.…

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