Artificial Intelligence Helping Healthcare Industry Becoming More Patient-Centric!

Punit Sharma
A3logics
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3 min readOct 16, 2017

One of the great challenges the healthcare industry facing today is handling the medical data tsunami in order to draw necessary insights while adhering to ever-changing regulatory reforms. Machine learning and artificial intelligence have become the foundational components for absorbing important information from this huge amount of data and provide better patient-centric outcomes and keep healthcare providers ahead of the race.

Personalizing Healthcare

Physicians require real-time access to clinical data to make fully informed patient care decisions. For example- a patient who has been diagnosed with heart failure, the doctor should be having complete knowledge about the history of heart attacks, blood clots, and other related clinical data. However, in most of cases doctors are not aware of the patient clinical data. AI can act as a single guide who tracks the patient data, learns from its experiences and tailors the best solution for the patient. In addition, AI can help patients to stick to the post-hospitalization recommendations in order to stay healthy.

Look into the Future

Here are some of the applications of artificial intelligence that can bring great transformations in healthcare:

#Designing Better Patient Treatment Plans

Artificial Intelligence crunches the vast amount of data in clinical notes and analyzes meaningful structured information. This data coupled with the patient’s file and external data can suggest better treatment options for a patient. Thus, AI can transform mere e-filing cabinets into full-fledged doctors’ aides for delivering improved care.

#Dig Into Medical Records

Generally, patient files are not organized and coding these records to extract necessary medical insights is a great challenge in existing healthcare systems. AI collects, normalizes and traces the system to find out relevant information and help healthcare providers in providing better & faster healthcare services. Thus, monitoring healthcare data well and making patients as healthy as possible.

#Cognitive Assistants Replacing Humans

AI can act as a “cognitive assistant” and help medical personnel in clinical decision-making. It can analyze radiology images, detect problems and suggests the best solutions for the patients based upon those tactics. AI can replace humans in numerous repetitive tasks, that workforce can be deployed in most complicated cases where human administration is a compulsion.

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#Precision Medicine and Drug Creation

AI can be a game-changer for genetics and genomes. It identifies huge data sets of genetic information and tells doctors about probable changes in the cell when DNA is altered by genetic variation. Such actionable genomic insights can be helpful in the treatment of cancer patients. In addition, developing medicines through clinical trials take decades and costs millions of dollars. Stimulating this up, AI technology structures the available data and compute results within a few hours or days hence providing more cost-effective drug creation.

Bringing it All Together

AI has become part of a new normal. Implementing AI in healthcare can organize patient data and provide physicians with all necessary insights helpful in making informed patient care decisions. The above article describes some fields where AI can aid healthcare providers to manage patient care more efficiently.

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Punit Sharma
A3logics

He has 10+ years of professional experience in HealthCare Domain with expertise in benefit plans, enrollments and industry-specific EDI operations.