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Health systems have been facing escalating challenges in recent decades since the increase in demand and costs cannot be met by a similar rate of increase in human resource and invested capital. The rise in demand is the result of several key trends: the population is growing older, and the relative proportion of the population over the age of 65 is rapidly increasing. As the average healthcare needs of the elderly population are far greater than those of the younger population this trend is straining healthcare systems. In parallel, chronic disease morbidity in all age groups is becoming increasingly more prevalent.
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
Sir William Osler, 1892.
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Balicer, R.D., Cohen-Stavi, C. (2020). Advancing Healthcare Through Data-Driven Medicine and Artificial Intelligence. In: Nordlinger, B., Villani, C., Rus, D. (eds) Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32161-1_2
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