Technology Quarterly | The AIs have it

Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient?

Technology has rarely been able to do so

3D rendered illustration of a pill bottle with a blue lid filled with computer chips on an orange background
Illustration: Timo Lenzen

IF you want to see a spiffy new protein structure, ask an AI. If you really need a fax machine, try a doctor’s office. It will be somewhere in the corner under a clipboard with a variety of paper forms attached to it. Not true for all doctors, or all health-care systems, but true enough for a wry grin in many; the sector’s digital transformation has been patchy at best.

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This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “The AIs have it”

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