How Can You Use AI In Your Healthcare RIGHT NOW?

This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies. In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians, nurses, or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If the little medical helper cannot comfortably respond to the raised issues, it will transfer the case to a real-life doctor. As the number of health chatbots multiplies at an incredible speed, we decided to list the most promising ones in this article to have a clue about where the health chatbot industry is heading. Are we in Promise Land yet?  Obviously not. These tools can help a group of patients and not help others, we’ll surely see huge sociological and geographical gaps in how fast AI-supported healthcare arrives, and on top of that, we already discussed that increasing health equity through AI and digital health is not even a tech question.  However, we are witnessing changes of monumental scale and significance. First of all, AI became widely accessible in the past year, a huge step forward from the times when only a select few –...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: imported Healthcare AI artificial intelligence digital health Source Type: blogs