Medical automation - achieving the goal of personalised healthcare

摘要

One of the fastest growing areas in the industrial IT sector is automation in healthcare. As healthcare providers the world over focus on attaining the twin objective of reducing costs and waste and improve healthcare quality, automation becomes a significant strategy to measure performance in healthcare delivery. The proliferation of medical images forms a vital part of manual tasks faced by clinicians and radiologists. These medical images are the fastest-growing data source in the healthcare industry; and as estimated by researchers at IBM, a renowned American multinational technology corporation, they contribute to around 90 per cent of all medical data in the world today.