Much proselytizing has occurred regarding the value and future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in healthcare. As prologue to this article, I am not an AI programmer, don’t play in Python, and have never built a machine learning algorithm. Is that to say that AI, machine learning, and blockchain will not play a role in the future of healthcare? As with telehealth, where people often use telehealth and telemedicine interchangeably, many people toss AI and machine learning into the same bucket. Under that arch, AI includes machine learning, natural languages processing (NLP), and “reasoning.” With machine learning, machines have no explicit instructions but extrapolate and determine patterns in large chunks of data.

Source: Forbes June 18, 2020 17:48 UTC