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How AI is taking over the Healthcare Field
AI has crept its way into most businesses. It was about time it found its way into healthcare. Healthcare is one of the most in demand industries and using all resources to provide the best patient care and save time is essential. The healthcare industry can use AI in the following ways:
Diagnosis
Can AI Cure Cancer? AI can examine medical images, such as x-rays, MRIs, or CT scans and patient symptoms by putting all data through an algorithm to more accurately and more quickly diagnose patients (Al-Antari).
Enlitic is a service that uses AI to examine images, including x-rays, magnetic imaging, and ultrasounds and help doctors diagnosis patients.
The Butterfly Network has invested in a portable ultrasound device for a more efficient and cost effective service. The device uses AI to examine ultrasound images.
Patient Care
AI: treatment at the tips of your fingers. Patients can use chatbots to help them identify symptoms and provide them with recommendations for treatment (Bajwa, et al).
Buoy Health allows patients to enter symptoms and concerns into a chatbot. It then reviews the data and uses an algorithm to provide diagnosis and treatment.
Documentation and Billing
AI can be used to swiftly and accurately identify ICD-10 codes and document patient’s charts.
Suki Assistant uses AI to help document and code patient charts, saving physicians and healthcare workers a substantial amount of time.
Prevention and Management
AI can be used to provide patients with the best course of action for their healthcare and treatment.
MySense uses at-home patient care for prevention and disease management. It puts patients’ behavior patterns into an algorithm which then helps guide them on what they can do to create the best care at home and create a personalized treatment plan.
Mental Health
AI powered Chatbots may provide patients with therapy tactics.
Woebot Health provides chat-based mental health support and uses cognitive behavior health tools to help patients in need. Patients can feel like they are having a real, meaningful conversation with a therapist.
Is AI Actually Taking over?
While it may feel that AI is taking over the healthcare industry, AI is projected to acquire between 5% to 10% of the healthcare field (Dave). Nurses and doctors are still needed to perform the majority of in-person tasks. While AI decreases risk of human error, it is also essential that algorithms be closely monitored. Algorithms may show biases and can still miss information and symptoms, especially those symptoms that are not reported as often. Additionally, people put value on having a real person to talk to, which is why so many doctors, nurses, and medical staff are trained in bed-side manner.
With all of that being said, AI can provide real benefits to the healthcare industry. The industry should adapt to and embrace the introduction of AI into their workplace, but real-life humans are still the most important resource in healthcare.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8285156/
https://radixweb.com/blog/ai-in-healthcare-statistics
https://www.butterflynetwork.com/
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