Toward Personalizing Healthcare With AI

The claim that artificial intelligence (AI) is the biggest breakthrough in medicine is not altogether an exaggeration. In this brief note we describe a few trends and speculate on a future path of AI in the healthcare sector. Since AI depends on data, growth in wearable devices or “medical IoT”<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup><sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup>Sometimes “wellness IoT” or “monitoring IoT” have been fueling AI and its applications to medicine. Incessant growth brought new taxonomy; little has been standardized and we use terms which are likely to be changed as the industry matures. Its proliferation brings a plethora of risks associated with data acquired by IoT; risks include data breaches, denial of service attacks, ransomware, etc.