Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the Key to Healthcare Revolution

With the healthcare industry burgeoning with significant progress in innovations and technological advancements, the health market is all set to witness growth and development beyond life sciences and medical technology. Today, in everything from wearable devices made for patients to medical technology assisting physicians in surgery and research, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the key player in the field of medicine. With the new technologies and digitally intelligent tools bringing in innovative trends and making radical changes to the healthcare industry, the country is poised to take a stand on the cusp of the impendent healthcare revolution. The growing possibilities in artificial intelligence are sure to change the perception of AI-based digital tools/devices and can be revolutionary, making the healthcare sector much more structured and productive than ever before. 

While digital technology has been always playing a prominent role in modern medical care, the wave of artificial intelligence is sure to create a bigger impact in terms of expanding the healthcare facilities and adding to its capability. Today, AI-based tools and devices have started making their ingress rapidly into the healthcare industry, mainly for diagnostic purposes and for organizing huge data/information.  Artificial intelligence has also been used for predictive analytics, the democratization of medicine, and for responding to a raft of conditions. Most importantly, it has changed the role of physicians from ‘doers’ to ‘operators’ of data-enabled technology applications. Thus, the role of AI in healthcare in India is expanding at a fast pace, bringing in a new era of healthcare revolution in the nation.

With the emergence of artificial intelligence in the field of medicine, there is a greater focus on healthcare innovations and technological advancements today. So far, the adoption of AI tools and technology has made the healthcare system more coherent in solving issues of patients, doctors, and healthcare organizations, and thereby achieve productivity. Apart from AI tools assisting medical professionals in providing healthcare, it has also fostered new ideas and concepts to bring out the full potential of healthcare services and delivery.

With the AI penetrating into all aspects of healthcare, the industry has started reconsidering the way it approaches healthcare management and research through the use of AI tools and technology. The value of AI tools in healthcare management lies in its ability to parse and analyze humongous data that helps the healthcare professionals diagnose processes faster and figure out healthcare trends and patterns accurately.

The Connection between Machine Learning and AI:

Artificial intelligence technology uses machine learning algorithms to analyze patient data and health information. Machine Learning (ML) has been revolutionizing the world of technology by allowing computers to learn automatically to predict changes and mitigate previous pitfalls and impasses. In healthcare, the blend of ML and AI in progressing large datasets can help professionals in augmented clinical work, predictive analysis, personalized patient care, and several other areas. Similarly, with the introduction of automated programs or ‘bots’, it is likely that healthcare systems can analyze trends or even find cures for some rare diseases and medical conditions that are difficult to treat or diagnose. Moreover, it helps systems make decentralized predictions, trends, and decisions about healthcare issues with minimal human input. AI tools, when combined with ML and automation, learn from the users to provide a customized experience, thus ushering a more productive, efficient, and profitable healthcare ecosystem.

AI is the Key to Improved Healthcare Delivery:

With AI-based innovative technologies along with cloud computing, the healthcare system is refurbishing its traditional practices for an improved healthcare delivery. Artificial Intelligence is focused on helping healthcare practitioners identify various risk factors from the existing dataset so that they are enabled to provide effective clinical treatment with lesser complications or risks. Especially in mental health treatment, AI tools are increasingly used to spot patterns of depression or other relevant mental illness/issues that may not be obvious to professionals.

Not only that, AI also holds the potential to drive a positive change in patient behavior by improving their healthcare accessibility and affordability. Particularly, in rural areas, healthcare availability and reach is significantly impacted by the use of AI tools and telemedicine. Patients are enabled with medical information and other data that facilitates faster and easier diagnosis and treatment. They are also provided with direct access to medicine, even without the physician at hand.

With the world making its move into artificial intelligence and related technology, the healthcare industry is equally getting prepared for the new era. Productive start-up ideas and experimentations are on the rise as AI is becoming more and more prevalent in the healthcare domain. To cope with the changing trends, it is important that the healthcare management professionals are well-equipped with cutting-edge technology knowledge and training for the new-age development.

To that end, IIHMR, one of the esteemed healthcare management institutions in India, is consistently working towards preparing the aspirants for the modern technological era, transforming their learning experience with the industry-relevant digital knowledge to compete with the changing trends. IIHMR believes that it is necessary for healthcare students to stay abreast of the changing trends, and hence IIHMR is not leaving any stone unturned in embracing innovative teaching methodologies and curriculum to produce efficient healthcare management professionals for the changing and advancing global healthcare industry.