Is your healthcare company looking to initiate a relationship with AI or to improve the one you have? Read on to discover how healthcare professionals and AI are a match made in seven.
Including healthcare expertise in the planning, development, training, and maintenance phases of the integration is crucial to making the most of all that AI has to offer. This will ensure the data is relevant, accurate, safe, secure, and compliant.
How is AI proving to be a perfect partner for healthcare?
Below are seven major ways in which the healthcare industry has benefited from an embrace of AI. This marriage has already transformed the way we practice medicine.
- Earlier detection and more accurate diagnosis of disease, leading to earlier treatment.
- Risk assessment and prediction of disease, allowing for preventative measures.
- Individualized treatment plans, factoring in genetic and lifestyle data to improve outcomes, while reducing unnecessary procedures and medications.
- Automation of administrative tasks such as billing, scheduling, and packaging of prescription refills.
- Reduction of costs by accelerating drug development, optimizing supply chains, and inventory management.
- Promotion of patient engagement and empowerment through wearable apps, telehealth platforms, and customized educational materials.
- Improvement in surgical outcomes by the creation of plans with 3D modeling, inter-procedure visualization and monitoring, and post-op methods of reducing complications.
Pharmacists are particularly well-suited to providing input on AI-assisted healthcare. In future newsletters, I will delve into the many ways we can contribute to these efforts and describe how healthcare professionals and AI are a match made in seven.