AI in Healthcare 2020 Leadership Survey Report: Through the eyes of the CIO

  • AI is not part of their current plans (36%), more than quarter (27%) are assessing and planning to deploy AI in the future and 23% are advanced and proficient with AI
  • Top 3 benefits of AI: Improving efficiency, workflow and accuracy
  • Top priority for AI: Using EMR data to reliably predict risk
  • Top challenge of AI: Lack of financial resources
  • AI holds the greatest promise in: Diabetes, neurological disease and heart disease
  • Almost two-thirds of their organizations expect to add 1-10 AI apps in the next 18 months
  • About half report their organizations will spend $1million to $10 million on AI this year
  • About half will spend $1 million to $10 million this year on infrastructure
  • Optimism reigns supreme among CIOs, with most of them reporting that their organization has a full understanding of data governance and privacy, uses data to effectively support AI efforts and senior leadership demonstrates ownership and commitment to AI initiatives
  • 59% work for an organization that is already using 1-10 AI-based apps in clinical practice
  • 53% have a data governance policy
  • CIOs aren’t yet sure (44%) if they want to share de-identified data with other healthcare organizations to improve AI methods, although 38% will share it for a fee.
  • While about half are shy on collaborating with research organizations to develop AI apps trained on local patient data reporting they have no plans to collaborate. Some 38% are planning to collaborate.
  • 57% plan to commercialize AI apps they have developed
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Mary C. Tierney, MS, Vice President & Chief Content Officer, TriMed Media Group

Mary joined TriMed Media in 2003. She was the founding editor and editorial director of Health Imaging, Cardiovascular Business, Molecular Imaging Insight and CMIO, now known as Clinical Innovation + Technology. Prior to TriMed, Mary was the editorial director of HealthTech Publishing Company, where she had worked since 1991. While there, she oversaw four magazines and related online media, and piloted the launch of two magazines and websites. Mary holds a master’s in journalism from Syracuse University. She lives in East Greenwich, R.I., and when not working, she is usually running around after her family, taking photos or cooking.