Health Care’s Productivity Crisis—and How Artificial Intelligence Might Finally End It

The Prognosis — Forecasting where medicine and morality are heading next

Fifty years ago, hospitals looked busy but hopeful. Since then, technology has radically reshaped every major industry—except ours. Agriculture now grows more with fewer hands. Manufacturing builds smarter and faster. Even education has digitized and scaled. Yet in health care, productivity has barely budged. Costs climb, burnout deepens, and clinical o…