Top Five applications of AI to transform the healthcare industry By Janifha Evangeline

Top Five applications of AI to transform the healthcare industry

Janifha Evangeline | Monday, 20 February 2023, 03:27 IST

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Healthcare is a growing complex industry of the global economy & AI is playing a crucial role in the global evolution of the sector throughout its many disciplines. According to a recent Deloitte study, 85 per cent of respondents among healthcare business leaders stated their organization was increasing in AI spend before 2023.

Efficiencies built by Artificial Intelligence applications & other technologies that are expected to save USD 150 billion every year for the healthcare sector by the year 2026, as per a study last year from Accenture.

One region where AI is specifically well-suited to healthcare-specific business challenges of healthcare industry is the ability to process as well as transform huge amounts of data to useful insights that humans are not capable of articulating on their own.

Some of the applications that you will come across in this AI in healthcare include the following:

  • Accurate Cancer Diagnosis
  • Customer Service Chatbots
  • Treatment of Rare Diseases
  • Reduction of dosage errors
  • Robot-assisted surgery

Accurate Cancer Diagnosis

Leveraging AI & Deep learning in cancer diagnosis leads the entire treatment even more efficient. Also, specialized algorithmic solutions help in analyzing medical images for pathology as well as radiology. Though AI will never replace doctors, it would significantly enhance their tasks. Firstly, algorithms are higher accurate than human eye. And secondly, they are much faster.

PathAI renders a best Machine Learning & AI tool to the healthcare sector which allows pathologists to make accurate diagnoses. It decreases errors during the process of cancer diagnosis & renders a range of new techniques for individual medical treatment. Furthermore, with increasing accuracy in the diagnosis of cancer patients, most of these can be looked after or even be cured at a stage where it does not turn fatal, saving several lives.

Customer Service Chatbots

Chatbots are built by leveraging technologies such as NLP. These allow patients in raising their queries about the appointments, bill payments etc. Chatbots also communicate with the patients about their illness & symptoms that in turn leads to reducing the load on medical professionals.

Furthermore, the chatbots aid in rendering the needed solutions to the patients, by allowing healthcare experts to mainly focus on other important tasks at hand. This healthcare solution not only engages patients however it also renders advanced treatment to them & provides better outcomes.

Treatment of Rare Diseases

BERG one of the AI-based clinical stage biotech platform works on mapping diseases to accelerate the finding & creation of advanced breakthrough medicines as well as vaccines, by changing the approach to healthcare. It leverages R&D along with interrogative biology, which allows medical professionals to build robust products for patients who are fighting rare diseases.

Reduction of dosage errors

Even one extra dosage of a medicine can lead to some dire consequences on a patient’s body. Hence that is why it is important for the patient to take the exact amount of medicine as prescribed. If not, there would be serious repercussions. The margin of probable errors in medications can be reduced by leveraging AI.

Robot-assisted surgery

Recently, robot assisted surgery has gained immense popularity. Many hospitals are implementing robotics which assists them in completing tasks which need precision control & flexibility. These are leveraged in tasks, such as open-heart surgery, exceeding human capabilities.

Surgeries which are assisted by AI-implemented robots lead to lesser complications when compared to lesser pain for the patients, & a faster recovery rate rather.

 

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