Welcome to 5 minutes 5 ideas. I'm
your host Samanvay. Today we're going to cover five uses of AI in healthcare.
So let's get started. The first use of AI in healthcare is medical imaging. Tools
such as CT scans, MRI scans and x-rays are used to diagnose cancers and tumors.
Once the scans are done, radiologists review the images for signs of diseases.
So it's not hard to see how useful an AI can be. An AI algorithm can easily be fed
images labeled by radiologists and it can easily excel radiologists at finding
cancers. In one research, it was shown that a neural network was 99% accurate
at diagnosing a cancer as opposed to 38 percent accuracy achieved by doctors.
So
this can lead to a reduction in error and an increase in early detection of
cancers therefore saving many lives. The second use of AI in healthcare is for
preliminary diagnosis. Currently doctors in the emergency departments and GP
clinics are overworked and fatigued. Therefore this leads to more errors in
patient diagnosis. One of the ways to reduce this error is through using an AI
assistant. Imagine when the patient books an appointment they also submit a list
of symptoms they're experiencing. Using these symptoms the AI engine behind the
scenes can make a couple of pre diagnoses and send them straight to the
doctor.
So the doctor knows exactly what to expect before even seeing the patient.
The AI assistant can successfully reduce the risk of misdiagnosis. Currently
there's a company called Babylon health that's implementing just this. The third
use of AI in healthcare is for discovering new medicines. Currently it
can cost up to 2.6 billion dollars to discover and develop new treatments. A
pharmaceutical company recently used an AI powered drug discovery tool to sift
through up to 240 million compounds in order to create new medicines. The AI
algorithm also works to minimize drug interactions that the new treatment
could have with other medicines. The use of this tool can drastically cut down
the time to discover and develop a medicine by five folds, reducing it from
five years to 12 months. The fourth use of AI in
healthcare is for AI assisted surgeries. Currently AI is used to monitor the
movements of surgeons during the course of a complex surgery.
This can
drastically reduce the chances of a mishap as the AI is able to alert if the
surgeon is about to do something out of norm. This is particularly useful as some
surgeries could last anywhere from 6 to 12 hours. The fifth use of AI in
healthcare is Virtual Nursing Assistants. This is especially useful for patients
that have recently been discharged or patients that require home care. The
virtual assistant would be accessible through an app on the phone, it would
conduct daily check-ins with the patients and answer any of their
questions. It would then go ahead and feed all of that information back to the
hospital.
The hospital can provide ongoing care without the need for
hospital visits. That wraps up five uses of AI in healthcare. Don't forget to like
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