With increasing frequency, “datathons” are expanding doctor-data scientist collaborations and expanding access to electronic medical records to improve patient care.

AI-based cardio evaluation has allowed doctors to change their recommended treatment plan for many patients, stakeholders say, meaning some patients who were due to receive stenting or a bypass were able to be treated with medication instead.

The point of the in-roads being made in AI and robotics, experts noted at a recent tech summit, is to help provide “high-quality healthcare to everybody, at lower costs.”

The study suggests the new method produces the most accurate estimates of influenza activity available to date, a week ahead of traditional healthcare-based reports.

According to executives polled, obstacles to AI implementation include organizational agility and inadequate staffing, not access to appropriate technology.

Describing it as an AI platform designed to enable hospitals to reap more value from technology such as clinical apps on devices, GE introduced Edison at the end of 2018 and will be showing the platform and related tools at its booth.

Healthcare has been slow to implement technology tools that have transformed other areas of commerce, the FDA noted, in part because of the regulation that accompanies medical products.

New AI tools, say experts, can help consumers understand and shop for the plans and benefits they need, when they need them.

New technology is starting to bring down walls in healthcare, say experts, allowing data to flow more freely to where it can do the most good.