Physicians and providers skeptical of AI should pay close attention to the experience of Mayo Clinic whose top representatives were on hand at HIMSS to describe the benefit of using IBM Watson in clinical trial matching.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty gave a powerful keynote address at the annual HIMSS meeting in Orlando that kicked off Monday describing humanity as on the cusp of ushering in a new cognitive era.
She was careful to characterize artificial intelligence in healthcare as merely augmenting the intelligence of doctors and not replacing it. Many will be rightly skeptical — radiology is a field that is bound to feel some pain as machines learn to read medical images quickly and more comprehensively than humans — but for now let's highlight the clear benefits.
