AI Filling Gaps In The Global Medical Systems Accurately

The number of chronic patients is increasing, but the ratio of medical staff continues to shrink. Can digital diagnosis and treatment help the medical industry?

Consulting AI doctors will no longer be just a plot in science fiction. The era of smart healthcare may come sooner than we think .

While it’s hard to ask an octogenarian to bounce out of his or her comfy chair and film a dance clip to the latest TikTok trend, the tech-savvy generation today has no problem using smart devices for age-appropriate activities, such as monitoring a range of chronic conditions, including heart disease, high cholesterol and diabetes. In fact, today’s silver generation (those aged 55 or above) are generally digitally literate enough to interact with a variety of health apps, lifestyle health websites, symptom trackers, wearable devices and telemedicine technologies.

As the elderly make up a growing portion of the global population, the digital revolution is bringing new hope to a healthcare system that is rapidly overwhelmed. This development is particularly timely, as more elderly people are in need of long-term care and fewer young professionals are able to care for them. Faced with these two major issues, can artificial intelligence (AI) and big data improve the effectiveness and productivity of professional healthcare workers and help solve the problem of heavy workloads and insufficient manpower?

There is already a wealth of evidence showing that AI can and will contribute to the medical community by improving public health, reducing costs, improving the patient and physician experience, and literally saving lives.

In fact, this increasingly powerful technology has already demonstrated its value in many areas:

Medical applications where AI can play an important role are growing rapidly. In different areas and medical fields, AI can provide timely and practical support to overburdened medical systems and professionals through artificial analysis capabilities.

Will AI replace real medical professionals? No, not yet, and probably not in the future. AI can certainly take over some tasks or assist surgeons in performing surgeries, such as knee arthroplasty, but human judgment and empathy are hard to replace. Although robots can also cultivate good clinical nursing etiquette, the scene of a nurse carefully caring for the elderly and gently caressing their foreheads will probably never be eliminated by the times.

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