Artificial Intelligence Changes Healthcare Delivery

When it comes to digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is a key technology. It has enormous potential, not least in the medical sector where algorithms are driving the transition to precision medicine in the areas of prevention, diagnostics, and treatment.

Everyone has something to say about artificial intelligence and yet everyone has their own idea about what it means. The future of the healthcare sector does not belong to “Dr Algorithm”, but to self-learning, intelligent decision-support systems that help doctors, holistically factor in the patient, and enhance the quality of medical care.

Precision medicine is more than gene analysis: thanks to extensive, individual data sets modern artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms help ensure more effective prevention, more precise diagnostics, predictive treatment planning, and customized insurant and patient management.

Whoever wants to take part in the global race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for medicine must first create the right conditions for it. At the Siemens Healthineers symposium during the German government’s Digital Summit 2018, innovators, politicians, and lawyers made the case for better framework conditions – and a public discourse.