Healthcare Workers Need Training, Upskilling to Realise Potential of AI

There is an urgent need to attract, educate and train a generation of data-literate healthcare professionals and to up-skill the current workforce in order to fully realize the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new report has recommended.

In its findings, the report says healthcare is one of the major success stories of our times, with medical science rapidly improving, in the process of raising life expectancy around the world. But with aging populations, healthcare systems face a growing demand for their services, rising costs and a workforce that is struggling to meet the needs of its patients.

To address this situation, the report argues that there is a need to embrace AI’s transformative potential.