AI is a machine learning technology that allows machines to learn by using algorithms to interpret data from connected things to predict outcomes and learn from success and failure. There are many of AI technologies from image recognition to context awareness and predictive application.

Machine learning is where most of the investment community’s funding has flowed in recent years. It is also the technology to allow machines to ultimately surpass the intelligence levels of humans.

AI can transform how healthcare systems operate, connect with patients and provide care. AI is the next step following the implementation of data and analytics approaches, it can unlock large volumes of data if it can be accessed in an automated way without any human efforts. Healthcare companies who implement AI are entering a new era to revolutionize the industry by making various tasks more efficient such as drug discovery, clinical trials, robotic surgery, patient management software, medical devices and apple disrupts clinical trials.

Apple disrupts clinical trials

Apple is building a clinical research ecosystem around the iPhone and Apple Watch. Data is at the core of AI application, and apple can provide medical researchers with two streams of patient health data that were not as easily accessible until now.

The ability to share health information across institution and software systems is an issue in healthcare despite efforts to digitize health records.  

  Apple is changing how information flows in healthcare and is opening new possibilities for AI; specifically, around how clinical study researchers recruit and monitor patients.

Since 2015, Apple has launched two open source frameworks which are ResearchKit and CareKit to help clinical trials recruit patients and monitor their health.

The frameworks allow researchers and developers to create medical apps to monitor people’s daily lives.

Research sources

In this research, I’ve conducted secondary source and all the information has been gathered through online research and previous articles, magazines and topics which are talking about AI and its impact in healthcare sector. I couldn’t find a way to enhance my research with primary sources like interview or gather the information individually.