A.I. Shows Promise of Reducing Length of Hospital Stay—a Growing Heath Care Concern

While going to the hospital is, in most cases, a matter of necessity, staying there doesn’t have to be. Reducing the length of a patient’s stay in a hospital is a growing concern in the health care space, both for the benefit of the patient and the health care provider’s financial wellbeing. Artificial intelligence-powered systems in hospitals, it seems, may be helping drive reductions in the length of stay.

Concord Hospital, a regional health care system based in New Hampshire, uses an...