Can AI be applied to revolutionize healthcare and medical outcomes?

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This past September, I had the opportunity to participate in an eye-opening event across the river from my hometown of Boston, MA. The event was a discussion of AI in medicine held on the campus of Harvard University. During the discussion, a senior faculty leader at Harvard Medical School commented to the effect that research performed at the medical school for a particular specialty had shown that AI could make a patient diagnosis with 90% greater accuracy than a physician. In addition, this same research suggested that 80% of the time patients perceived communications generated using AI to be more compassionate than communications received from actual physicians.