With technology, we have seen some of the most interesting inventions in the past several decades, most notably the last two, since the beginning of the new millennium. Actually, once the first transistor was invented, the world started changing rapidly.
Nowadays, these transistors are everywhere and power everything, from our smartphones to the internet. Technology brought us the internet, the ability to watch movies online…
But, where technology has recently made strides is AI. Artificial intelligence are two words which you hear very often as part of marketing material, but in reality, it is an important part of the evolution of our race.
AI is changing everything that we do and this time, we shall take a look at how it is changing the medical industry.
Early Detection Systems
When detecting potentially fatal diseases, you want to be sure that you have detected one. AI can help with that, when standard procedures fail to be as accurate as we want them to. Typically speaking, when doing mammograms, AI can help speed up the process up to thirty times, while also increasing the accuracy of the detection to almost 100%.
There is always room for error, however, with AI, the error rate is so negligible that it is very unlikely to return a false result. This helps patients who could be at risk, as well as those who are not, to get correct results on time.
The Internet of Things Application in Daily Care
We, as consumers, love to use applications which track every little thing about our lives. Some of these applications are actually useful, particularly ones that track our daily habits when it comes to health.
That can easily be translated into a healthier lifestyle, with applications, or rather, the AI powering them, getting more accurate when it comes to giving us the advice we need. Move more, workout more, hydrate more often, whichever the case, the apps are getting better at helping us not need to visit a doctor as often.
The Right Procedure
Where AI technology is great is helping us go through lots of data to find the right answer. Imagine having access to a lot of patient data as well as their treatment, over the course of the last sixty years or more. That would make an AI have lots of data to help you proceed with an ongoing diagnosis.
A more effective decision for a treatment can be made by having an AI sift through all the data and give us a result which will be more helpful. An AI can account for all the cases that it knows of, while a human is very unlikely to hold all of that information at the ready.
From better ways of forming a diagnosis, going through all the data to find a better treatment procedure, to simply helping us stay healthier by improving our daily habits, AI is changing the medical industry, as well as all the other ones.