ML4HealthCare

Dr. Anshuman Saxena
15 min readJun 7, 2021

It is well accepted that present-day AI, i.e. Machine Learning (ML), has the potential to bring fundamental change to the healthcare sector. Illustration 1 lists the prominent benefits expected from the use of ML in healthcare; categorized based on a survey of professionals from hospitals, technology vendors, and government agencies.

Illustration 1: Benefits expected from AI for healthcare. Source: HIMSS Analytics, eHealth TRENDBAROMETER May 2018

As per a US government report (OACT, 2017), the national health expenditure in 2016 is estimated at $3.4…

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