How is community support helping AI to gain traction in the field of healthcare?
AI has been fast emerging as a reliable tool to improve healthcare service delivery across the globe. Many organizations have already been realizing the tangible benefits in terms of cost reduction, better productivity, more personalized patient care, and enhanced service quality. There are many innovative ways in which Healthcare AI can be utilized to help the healthcare sector achieve its objectives with maximum efficiency and minimum hassles.
To ensure the widespread use of healthcare AI with better competency and safety standards, it is imperative to push this momentum in the forward direction. Thankfully, healthcare AI has now started getting this positive push from patients, physicians, and government. While the things are still at a nascent stage, we can hope that by and by wider demographics and more geography will be inspired to follow the suit to make AI an important instrument for positively transforming global healthcare services.
In this blog we are going to review how the community support is helping healthcare AI and what are tangible immediate benefits offered by healthcare AI:
Patient communities are taking active part in healthcare AI
This new momentum and a paradigm shift towards healthcare AI will help physicians assume a new, improved profile where they are empowered to channel more attention towards mission-critical tasks like research and development, exploring social aspects of better healthcare, etc.
Along with ensuring wholesome growth for physicians, the active participation of patient communities will also encourage them to think creatively and come up with out of the box solutions to nagging healthcare issues. Along with offering better job satisfaction it also promises to utilize the maximum potential of promising physicians.
For instance the portals like epatient.net are providing wholesome resources on adopting healthy lifestyle, do’s and don’ts and other helpful material on how to live a rewarding life after being diagnosed with health disorders.
More physicians are incorporating AI in their routine
This combined positive approach of different stakeholders — right from individual physicians to progressive healthcare organizations down to the patients themselves- has also encouraged regulator bodies to prepare specific regulations for regulating use of healthcare AI and determining answerabilities- something which is of utmost importance to ensure the ethical use of healthcare AI.
This new momentum and a paradigm shift towards healthcare AI has helped physicians assume a new, improved profile where they are empowered to channel more attention towards mission critical tasks like research and development, exploring social aspects of better healthcare, etc. Along with ensuring wholesome growth for physicians, it has also encouraged them to think creatively and come up with out of the box solutions to nagging healthcare issues. Along with offering better job satisfaction it also promises to utilize maximum potential of promising physicians.
Role of medical associations
Many medical associations of good repute set an example for the physicians across a wide expanse of geographic and demographics. Utilizing their influence in the positive way, these associations can play a vital role in furthering the momentum of healthcare AI by releasing relevant guidelines, recommendations and reward incentives like recognition for healthcare organizations and professionals who are proactively and innovatively using AI technology in their medical practices.
These associations can also provide a common platform for doctors, organizations and patients to brainstorm and mutually design AI-based solutions to specific healthcare issues under the guidance/framework of those associations to ensure safe, secured and sustainable solutions. Medical associations can also conduct periodical seminars and workshops to impart practical AI education for doctors and patients to help them gain practical insights and understand its potential, scope and practical use cases.
Government assistance in the form of favorable policies, grants and support
Government plays a very vital role in this entire equation. By offering citizens complete access to their digital health data, the government can encourage its citizens to live a healthy, rewarding life. By actively supporting the infrastructure and management needs of this data, the governments can allow citizens to enjoy the dual benefits of accessing their updated data anytime they want without any maintenance or management worries.
Conclusion
To realize tangible benefits out of healthcare AI the collective participation of all stakeholders- doctors, hospitals, and the government is vitally important. It helps in keeping all the players motivated and thus ensures fertile opportunities to facilitate the global adoption of healthcare AI across different countries and communities.
