Health Organizations Embrace IoT and AI, Report Shows | INN
The healthcare industry is aggressively adopting intelligent technologies such as internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) but many of these organizations need capabilities to verify data, says a report from Accenture (NYSE:ACN).
According to the report, 77 percent of the health executives surveyed said they expect to invest in IoT and smart sensors in 2018 with 53 percent of them expecting to invest in AI systems.
It was also revealed that 86 percent of the executives said that their organizations use data to drive automated decision-making at an unprecedented scale.
Meanwhile 81 percent of health executives surveyed said they are not prepared to face the societal and liability issues that will require them to explain their AI based actions and decisions. Further, 73 percent said they plan to develop internal ethical standards for AI to ensure that their AI systems act responsibly. Read more…