The 3 most valuable applications of AI in health care (VentureBeat)
Artificial intelligence could prove to be a self-running growth engine for the health care sector in the not-so-distant future.
A recent report from Accenture analyzed the “near-term value” of AI applications in health care to determine how the potential impact of the technology stacks up against the upfront costs of implementation. Results from the report estimated that AI applications in health care could save up to $150 billion annually for the U.S. health care economy by 2026.
The report focused on 10 AI applications with the potential to have a near-term impact in medicine and analyzed each application to derive an associated estimated value. Researchers considered the impact of each application, likelihood of adoption, and value to the health economy.
Here are the top three AI applications with the greatest value potential in health care, according to the report’s findings.
1. Robot-assisted surgery: Estimated value of $40 billion
Robotic surgeries are considered “minimally invasive” — meaning practitioners replace large incisions with a series of quarter-inch incisions and utilize miniaturized...
