The Impact Of Digital Health Technologies On The Future of Medical Specialties In One Infographic

Will digital assistants prescribe medication, will smart algorithms diagnose patients with malignant lesions based on CT scans, while robot surgeons do the dirty work in the OR 20 years from now, ousting doctors completely? Highly unlikely, but there are many fears around the advancement of digital health technology up to a point of medical professionals becoming superfluous. While we believe that fears about technology, especially A.I., replacing physicians are unfounded, we should acknowledge the impact of fast-paced innovation happening in healthcare on the various medical specialties. That’s what our latest infographic illustrates. Check it out! Will technologies really replace doctors? Hype and fears around technologies, especially artificial intelligence and smart robots, taking over jobs are running high in every industry – and the medical world is no exception. A renowned voice in tech, Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures told CNBC that A.I. will be bigger than all other tech revolutions, and robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade. When looking at healthcare and medical specialties, radiology seems to be the prime target: in late 2016, Prof Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of neural networks, said that it’s “quite obvious that we should stop training radiologists” as image perception algorithms are very soon going to be demonstrably better than humans. Radiologists are, he said, “the coyote al...
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