These 10 AI applications are poised to have the greatest impact in healthcare (OrthoFeed, Artifical Intelligence)
If you have doubt that artificial intelligence is going to play a role in healthcare’s continued development, think again.
A new report from Accenture, titled “Artificial Intelligence: Healthcare’s New Nervous System,” provides a bit of clarity on why technology will be a growing force in the medical world.
Accenture predicts the health AI market will grow at an annual rate of 40 percent through 2021, reaching $6.6 billion by that year. In 2014, the market was only at $600 million.
Digging a little deeper, Accenture makes it clear that a few specific AI applications will have the biggest near-term effect on healthcare. To gain a thorough understanding of their impact, Accenture comprehensively analyzed the applications.
The organization estimates each item will have the following value (or potential annual benefits) by 2026:
Robot-assisted surgery — $40 billion
Virtual nursing assistants — $20 billion
Administrative workflow assistance — $18 billion
Fraud detection — $17 billion
Dosage error reduction — $16 billion
Connected machines — $14 billion
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