Health & MedicineAI could transform health care, but will it live up to the hype?The technology has the potential to improve lives, but hurdles and questions remain Antoine DorBy Meghan Rosen and Tina Hesman Saey2 hours agoThe U.S. health care system is rife with problemsas many Americans have experienced firsthand. Access to quality care is patchy, and medical costs can leave people with lifelong debt for treatments that dont always work. Frustration and anger at the systems failures were a flash point in the presidential election and may have factored in the December murder of UnitedHealthcares CEO.True progress in transforming health care will require solutions across the political, scientific and medical sectors. But new forms of artificial intelligence have the potential to help. Innovators are racing to deploy AI technologies to make health care more effective, equitable and humane.