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The advent of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare increases the efficiency of operations. It helps healthcare professionals to everyday patterns and requirements of the people and helps them understand the feedback better with support and guidance for staying healthy.
The automation led by the emergence of artificial intelligence in healthcare serves a major role in everyday patterns involving the management of patients and medical resources. The advent of AI helps in significantly improve diagnostic processes.
Presently, AI is utilized to identify prevalent chronic diseases, such as cancer, more specifically at its early stage. AI helps in reviewing and translating mammograms 30 times faster with an accuracy rate of 99%. It helps in significantly reducing unnecessaries biopsies.
Moreover, new generation doctors are tech-friendly, and people are significantly becoming aware of SIRI, Cortana, and Alexa. Millions of people in rural areas can-not frequently access healthcare facilities, as hospitals are established more than 100 km away from them. While, in cities, an appointment with a medical practitioner can be taken within two minutes.
The usage of AI algorithms in healthcare information systems plays a crucial role due to their capability of improving patient outcomes, more specifically in busy departments, including the emergency department.
The patient-doctor ratio in India is 11,000:1 while the needed ratio is 1000:1. Moreover, numerous people get misled by the quacks with no license. Adding 1 doctor to the workforce takes 10+ years of study along with practice under supervision, as well as it requires an investment of more than $300,000 with infrastructure advancement and constant retraining.
Employing an AI chatbot with legit medical data has the potential to mitigate the gap between demand and supply of medical counseling, further helping in reducing the time, and cost. The usage of pattern recognition for diagnosing the patients at risk of developing diseases or disorders associated with a certain condition due to certain lifestyle habits, genomic, environmental, and other factors.
The problem concerning access, affordability, and awareness is solved by AI to a much greater extent. Moreover, it enables the storage and transfer of structured medical data between doctors, patients, and healthcare organizations. AI in healthcare also helps in automating the medical coding, facilitates ease for hospitals and insurance companies for case coordination, and results in significantly reducing the patient’s visits with reduced costs for those who access healthcare services, along with those who provide.
Moreover, AI has captured the attention of physicians, technology experts, researchers, and consumers in numerous fields to bring innovations to the public health sector by providing treatment for human diseases.
Individuals’ quality of life and health are significantly affected by the lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, sleep, stress reduction, medication, and substance abuse. In addition, the advent of AI in healthcare in India is predicted to mitigate economic disparity instead of expanding the existing gaps.