AI and Machine Learning Expected to Modernize Global Healthcare Supply Chain

The global healthcare supply chain that provides reliable medications to patients when and where they need them will be modernized using a combination of analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning tools. Merck states that this move won’t lead to lost jobs, but will instead lead to employees being upskilled to more suitable roles.

Global Head of Digital and Data for Healthcare Michelangelo Canzoneri remarks, “I believe that automation and advanced capabilities in digitization and data such as machine and deep learning will be the only way to meet changing patient demands,” adding, “Personalized medicine, online prescribing, more personal health trackers and sensors – these will all place the patient at the heart of the supply chain. We will need increasingly intelligent systems to meet these more complex demands.” Read more here.

(Source: EMD Group, 2021)