Artificial intelligence in surgery: the emergency surgeon's perspective (the ARIES project) - Discover Health Systems

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been developed and implemented worldwide in many fields. In healthcare, AI has the valuable potential to reduce health, social, and economic inequities, help actualize universal health coverage, and improve health outcomes on a global scale. The COVID-19 pandemic was characterized in its early period by a tremendous number of patients needing hospital admission, leading to collapsing healthcare systems globally. Healthcare system strain was exacerbated by limited hospital resources and the low availability of COVID tests and personal protective equipment (PPE). These limitations increased the interest of governments, private companies, and public healthcare systems in developing AI systems to improve the management of patients.