The State of Healthcare Technology
After lagging behind many other industries for years, the healthcare sector is now experiencing tremendous change. The industry is on the cusp of significant breakthroughs that will transform it and help make the healthcare system and healthcare work1 better for everyone. While a full vision of healthcare technology is beyond its scope, this report will outline key technologies that are bringing about this revolution. It is organized into the following sections:
- Healthcare challenges and technology
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Technology amplifies continuous change at an ever-increasing velocity. It drives digital transformation forcing healthcare companies to refresh their business models, reduce friction, and create engaging experiences. This section describes several of the key challenges and provides a preview of technologies driving continuous innovation.
- Artificial intelligence
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AI is a general-purpose technology that encompasses several distinct technologies and architectures that will transform healthcare. This section explores what the emergence of AI means for healthcare and the healthcare system. Only two AI technologies are explored in this paper: deep learning and deep natural language processing.
- Deep learning
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Deep learning learns from data—and the more data, the better. Engineers feed a learning algorithm terabytes or more of data, train it using this data, and then let the computer figure out how to recognize sounds, words, objects, or language. This ...
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