Likely where AI cost benefit is being compared to human labor.
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Crises drive health innovation. The presumed potential and much-publicized looming shortage of doctors is worrisome – or at least their lopsided geographic distribution is a concern. Or there are not enough medical schools to train new doctors. Or doctors are tired of being doctors. Or is it the problem of keeping down the cost of actually seeing a doctor or a nurse practitioner? Is it that population health risks drive the need for improved chronic disease management? Is it that there are or may soon be so many new patients? Or is the problem one of wasting the time of so many human staff in a hospital doing back-breaking and/or mundane tasks?
The result is an investment, somewhere, somehow, in technology. These phenomena are widely perceived as problems – discussed in the media (which means they were preceded by an interview, a press conference or a press release). They are then rationalized into becoming technology investment and when you search for technology innovation health 2015, prepare to be overwhelmed with summits, competitions, and accelerators. And as with so many other technology innovations, eventually these healthcare tech changes are introduced; then they are expected; and finally they are required – and so they become widely deployed. Consider three innovations that may be on the way to being standards of care: