Five Questions With: Robert Blackburn

Susan Shalhoub

04/09/2019

Robert Blackburn — ROBERT BLACKBURN is the owner of Blackburn Labs in Providence, which recently built a tool to help a Boston hospital’s patients manage their high blood pressure, among other conditions. / COURTESY BLACKBURN LABS

Gartner, a global research firm, has reported that emergency-room visits in the United States will be reduced by 20 million by 2023 due to artificial intelligence, or AI, health care. Boston’s WBZ-TV recently featured a news segment on such technology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital that’s designed to manage high blood pressure. This software –…