Chatbots Will Serve As Health Assistants

Chatbots, intelligent personal assistants, artificial intelligence supported messaging apps or voice controlled bots are forecasted to replace simple messaging apps soon. In healthcare, they could take off the burden on medical professionals regarding easily diagnosable health concerns or quickly solvable health management issues. Here is the evolution of bots as health assistants. Imagined conversation with a health chatbot Hi Viola, how can I help you? I have a mild fever, headache, I feel dizzy. What could it be? What is your temperature at the moment? 38C. For how long have you been feeling the headache? In the last 2-3 hours. Do you have any other symptoms? No, I don’t. You had the exact same symptoms last week and the week before. This time, I recommend you to visit your GP. Let me call your doctor’s office and make you an appointment that fits your schedule! With the appearance of intelligent personal assistants (IPA) supported by machine learning such as Siri on iOS or Alexa for Amazon, the above scene does not sound like science fiction anymore. If we also consider how Cognitoys support the cognitive development of small children with the help of AI in a fun and gentle way, personal health assistants on our phones suddenly become definite responses for certain needs. They can make our lives more comfortable and they could pay attention to our very personal wishes through constant learning – which might also have some downsides. Remember the movie entitl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Telemedicine AI chatbot digital health gc4 Innovation intelligent personal assistant machine learning Source Type: blogs