Implications of AI development for healthcare

Considering recent enhancements of artificial intelligence (AI), there are several benefits for the healthcare system, including improvements in medical diagnosis, offers of virtual health assistance and reduction of costs.

To begin with, AI has shown potential achievement in providing accurate medical diagnosis and early disease detection. Appointed out by Jun Wu (2019), AI can employ technologies such as Deep Learning System (DLS) and medical imaging techniques from former patients’ image and symptoms data sources to arrive at the early diseases.

Secondly, AI is considered as the key element to reform the healthcare system by introducing the virtual care assistant programs for remote patients.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, AI-powered virtual health systems have become an important tool to reach distant patients and provide necessary medical diagnosis and advice through the support of high-tech devices.

Lastly, technologies such as AI can help facilitate administrative processes and reduce costs from avoidable system inefficiencies. According to an analysis of Frost and Sullivan (2016), AI has possibly enhanced care delivery outcomes by 30 to 40 percent while reducing treatment costs by approximately 50 percent.