We asked our subscribers: how impactful will AI be on the future of healthcare? Here's what they had to say.

• "Very optimistic about AI in all aspects of business and personal activities. It is very new but has set records in getting attention and use. I have no idea how I ever lived without it."

• "Care delivery is so operator dependent which is detrimental. AI will reduce this."

• "It is very disruptive. I think it will take a generation to adapt AI into healthcare and be comfortable and use it to improve the delivery of care. Till then we need education for healthcare professionals and the consumer so they start to use it and adapt it into their individual workflow."

• "Changes in the healthcare landscape will require AI to assist in the prevention of socialized medicine. Cost and lower reimbursement eventually close hospitals and physician offices due to the increasing regulatory requirements of the federal government as well as requirements from the payer, such as prior authorization, delays in treatment, and the lack of a labor pool."

• "There are great places to add AI. Still need the human interaction as well."

• "If AI helps us live longer, I'm not sure that's a good thing. For our own quality of life, those around us, the economy, our footprint on the earth, etc."

• "I am an AI enthusiast and believe it can help with overall care if done right. I have ideas on how to make it happen."

• "It's not a foregone conclusion that AI will transform healthcare. It is dependent on all of us who care about improving health outcomes and quality of life to engage deeply with the technology and how it's applied. The alignment problem is not just about the interpretability of models. It includes aligning our ethics and values. An exciting time to be alive!"

• "AI can be a great enabler. However, its reach is limited (especially into the populations that might most benefit) due to access and willingness to use/adapt. A great technology/benefit that will be limited by adoption/use!"

• "Within 10 years, AI will reduce friction in back office workflows for almost everyone in the healthcare setting. Perhaps not directly addressing provider fatigue, but I believe the unburdening of routine and tedious work will have a comprehensive positive impact on job satisfaction indirectly, across the care continuum. And I cannot overstate my excitement about the ability of tech to hyper-power clinical research. I’m fairly confident that AI will provide an abstraction layer to seed thoughts/theories/formerly expensive explorations and allow technology to assume 80+% workload."

• "I am an AI enthusiast and believe it can help with overall care if done right. I have ideas on how to make it happen."

• "It's important for the regulations/analysis to catch up with the speed of innovation."

• "GenAI will be valuable for mundane tasks, and this could lead to improved operational flow and in some cases improved outcomes and and more balanced outcomes. However, GenAI will have a limited impact on high-leverage decision-making and direct treatment outcomes. If we are talking more broadly about AI to also include predictive AI, then there will be more impact on direct outcomes."

• "AI is informed by humans and human experience — we have a duty to remove bias."

• "Most of what we ask physicians to do would be better done by computers. Especially primary care."

The future of AI is remarkably unknown. What we've already seen come to fruition likely pales in comparison to what's still in development.

We've already seen the impact of AI on areas of healthcare including:

• diagnostic capabilities and accuracy

• interactive patient education resources

• patient and provider communication

• patient access

• development of healthcare

We appreciate the insights from those who participated in the survey!