What doctor? Click to launch Why AI and robotics will de?ne New Health Updated June 2017 What doctor? Why AI and robotics will de?ne New Health Introduction Transforming Investment Findings Conclusion References About Contacts Introduction Would you allow a medical robot with arti?cial intelligence (AI) to examine, diagnose and prescribe a treatment plan for you or a member of your family with cancer? Would you accept a robot as your primary surgeon? And if you were to do so, what would the human clinician do? New Health We are entering a new era of health – New Health Health matters. It matters to each of us as individuals and to society as a whole. It lies at the heart of our economic, political, social and environmental prosperity and is one of the largest industries in the world. The answers to these two questions fundamentally impact clinicians and caregivers throughout healthcare. The answers will ultimately decide how we implement the use of AI and robots in developing our healthcare systems across the globe. We will speci?cally address these two questions in the next phase of our research initiative, but it is important to keep them in mind as we explore existing perceptions and attitudes towards AI and robotics in this report. AI and robots have long been a theme in ?ction. From Isaac Asimov’s ‘I, Robot’ in 1950 to Baymax, the care robot in ‘Big Hero 6’, we’ve long been fascinated with the possibilities for machines that can understand, reason and learn – and help us to make better use of information. Modern health systems can treat and cure more diseases than ever before. New technology is bringing innovation to old treatments. Yet signi?cant quality, access and cost issues remain and our health systems are becoming increasingly unsustainable. Just imagine that you had a hand-held scanner the size of your smartphone that could ‘sense, compute and record’ your daily health status just like the Star Trek medical ‘tricorder’. What if it could make rec