The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to the provision of at-home healthcare, not just as telehealth but also AI-driven remote patient monitoring. This will not replace doctors and hospitals, but will reduce costs and ease the burden on medical professionals.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US healthcare system had long been suffering from dysfunction, inefficiencies, and exorbitant costs, with electronic medical records often causing more problems than they solve. AI presents an opportunity to address some of these problems and ease the burden on healthcare workers, but how should it be deployed so that it will live up to its potential?