Healthcare data is a precious commodity, but because of how it can used, not because of a scarcity. Nearly half of healthcare executives, 41 percent, said their organizations' data volume has grown more than 50 percent within the last year, according to an Accenture report.
Healthcare executives expect the incoming flood of data to require more than the human touch. Eighty-four percent of healthcare executives agree that the industry will need to focus as much on training machines as training people within the next three years. Here are four other key points from the survey.
• 59 percent of healthcare executives surveyed use rule-based algorithms
• 52 percent of healthcare executives surveyed use machine learning
• 49 percent of healthcare executives surveyed use intelligent agents
• 45 percent of healthcare executives surveyed use predictive analytics