How senior care startups are harnessing AI for preventive healthcare

In the 2002 Steven Spielberg sci-fi thriller Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, the police are able to prevent crimes before they occur, thanks to three clairvoyant human beings, called precogs, who are able to foresee future events. While that sci-fi world, born from author Philip K. Dick’s vivid imagination, is far from reality, artificial intelligence (AI) is taking giant strides to make precognition very real, and in a good way, through preventive care.

Rather than waiting for symptoms to appear and then commencing treatment, preventive care…