Improving health care delivery through automation

There’s talk of how artificial intelligence will disrupt every sector of the economy. Yet, in health care, an industry that represents 18 percent of the GDP, we are far from computers taking over. Instead, we have the opposite problem — the computers are not doing enough.

To properly care for patients, the average primary care physician would need to work 22 hours per day. Much of this time is spent on work that many would be shocked to learn is largely manual. As a result, health care suffers from extreme clinical burnout and people shortages. At the same time, we have millions of new patients relying on the health care system.