Pharma lags behind healthcare in AI adoption, but many expect wider use in next few years, study finds

Phar­ma com­pa­nies are trail­ing be­hind health­care in AI adop­tion by a wide mar­gin, ac­cord­ing to a new study. On­ly 20% of phar­ma pro­fes­sion­als ver­sus 40% of health­care providers say the new tech­nol­o­gy is al­ready in use, ac­cord­ing to man­age­ment con­sul­tan­cy Berke­ley Re­search Group’s (BRG) re­port.

While the gap will like­ly per­sist, AI use is ex­pect­ed to gain wide ac­cep­tance and im­ple­men­ta­tion in both in­dus­tries, with more than half of phar­ma and 75% of health­care pro­fes­sion­als ex­pect­ing it with­in three years.

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