How Will A.I. Penetrate Healthcare? Through Your Skin, Voice And Cough!

There is certainly no shortage of research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning algorithms these days. You will come across a number of announcements every week reporting on fascinating findings, new methods, and breakthrough results. Despite the unquestionable buzz, it is challenging to pinpoint examples that actually found their way into everyday medical practice, that became part of “standard” healthcare.  In this article, we will introduce three areas we believe will be the forerunners of the A.I. revolution in medicine and will discuss four principles that help to determine whether you can expect a certain technology to become mainstream soonish – or not. For the sake of understanding, let’s start with the three areas briefly: A.I. in skin checking apps, vocal biomarker analysis and cough analysis are technologies that – we think – are closest to becoming widely used in everyday healthcare. We’ll get back to them a bit later.   For a given technology to penetrate healthcare, it has to check the following four boxes: 1. Has to offer low-hanging fruits To justify substantial investments, you need to see – at least the promise of – tangible results. This is especially true if we are spending taxpayers’ money, and thinking about implementing technologies on a nationwide scale.  In some cases calculating the benefits can be pretty abstract: you achieve x more efficiency by co...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: TMF Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine AI doctors vocal biomarkers Future of healthcare medical algorithm skin checking app cough analysis Source Type: blogs