A medical artificial intelligence ( AI ) system , screening human retinas for three different types of diseases , was so efficient it could reduce doctors ' workload by up to 80 % , freeing up clinicians to spend more time offering treatments , according to professor Wong Tien Yin of the Singapore Medical Eye Center . Dr Olivier Elemento , director of the Caryl and lab Englander Institute for Medical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine said AI had the potential to " increase the productivity of physicians , potentially up to threefold " . The technology would become increasingly utilised in the medical caregiving profession , it forecast .
A medical artificial intelligence (AI) system, screening human retinas for three different types of diseases, was so efficient it could reduce doctors' workload by up to 80%, freeing up clinicians to spend more time offering treatment, according to Professor Wong Tien Yin of the Singapore National Eye Center. Dr Olivier Elemento, director of the Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine said AI had the potential to "improve the productivity of physicians, potentially up to threefold". The technology would become increasingly utilised in the medical caregiving process, it forecast.