Meet STACI: your interactive guide to the rapid advances of AI in health care
Artificial intelligence has become its own sub-industry in health care, driving the development of products designed to detect diseases earlier, improve diagnostic accuracy, and discover more effective treatments. One recent report projected spending on health care AI in the United States will rise to $6.6 billion in 2021, an 11-fold increase from 2014.
The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the importance of the technology in medicine: In the last few months, hospitals have used AI to create coronavirus chatbots, predict the decline of Covid-19 patients, and diagnose the disease from lung scans.
