PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Junaid Bajwa AU - Usman Munir AU - Aditya Nori AU - Bryan Williams TI - Artificial intelligence in healthcare: transforming the practice of medicine AID - 10.7861/fhj.2021-0095 DP - 2021 Jul 01 TA - Future Healthcare Journal PG - e188--e194 VI - 8 IP - 2 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/2/e188.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/2/e188.full SO - Future Healthc J2021 Jul 01; 8 AB - Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful and disruptive area of computer science, with the potential to fundamentally transform the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare. In this review article, we outline recent breakthroughs in the application of AI in healthcare, describe a roadmap to building effective, reliable and safe AI systems, and discuss the possible future direction of AI augmented healthcare systems.