Health assistance and medication management

Concept of virtual nurse has long been thought off. Several companies are working on it and few
have already launched their products. Virtual nurse can help people monitor their condition and
treatment. The interface can use machine learning to support patients with chronic conditions in-
between doctors visits. It can provide proven, customized monitoring and follow-up care, with a
strong focus on chronic diseases

Designing treatment plans:

AI can be used for its advance ability to analyse the context and meaning of structured and
unstructured data in clinical notes & reports. Using advance technique selecting pathway for
treatment will be easier. Combining this information with patient biological profile will make the job
much easier and partially automated thereby reducing the amount of time spent on each patient by
doctor.

Mining medical records:

The most obvious application of artificial intelligence in healthcare is data management. Collecting it,
storing it, normalizing it, tracing its lineage it is the first step in revolutionizing the existing
healthcare systems. Recently, the AI research branch of the search giant, Google, launched its
Google Deepmind Health project, which is used to mine the data of medical records in order to
provide better and faster health services.

Assisting repetitive jobs:

Certain field of medical examination and tests like radiology and cardiology involves a lot of
repetitive jobs . Idea here is to build and introduce next generation cognitive assistant with
analytical, reasoning ability along with a wide range of clinical knowledge. This assistant will have the
capability to analyse radiology image and should be able to detect problem more reliably and quickly
thereby reducing the manpower needed to do similar jobs. As more data and machine learning kicks
in the system accuracy of the prediction by cognitive assistant will improve.

Online consultations:
Though online medical consultation is already gaining its ground but it is still in its initial phases. AI
can be linked with online medical consultation which can map the diagonasis of the patients based
on their past medical history and biological profile. As online consultation will take off the waiting
time to see a doctor in person will reduce significantly
Precision medicine:
Artificial intelligence will have a huge impact on genetics and genomics as well. Deep Genomics aims
at identifying patterns in huge data sets of genetic information and medical records, looking for
mutations and linkages to disease. They are inventing a new generation of computational
technologies that can tell doctors what will happen within a cell when DNA is altered by genetic
variation, whether natural or therapeutic.

Drug creation:
Developing pharmaceuticals through clinical trials take sometimes more than a decade and costs
billions of dollars. Speeding this up and making more cost-effective would have an enormous effect
on todays healthcare and how innovations reach everyday medicine. The overall time for a new
drug introduction can be reduced significantly. Big data can also find out why dome people servive
few diseases and why some do not, knowledge gained can be used to create new therapies.
Combining AI with the patients own biological data to map out the differences between healthy
and disease-friendly environments and help in the discovery and development of drugs, diagnostics
and healthcare applications.