The pluses and minuses of AI in healthcare

That same month, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and India's Amity University announced that they had developed an AI platform that can target not only Covid-19 but Chagas disease, an infectious ailment common in South America that results in damage to the heart and central nervous system. AI is capable of analyzing data from various sources--electronic health records, images, therapies, etc.--and developing models that will predict the best possible approach to any given patient's care journey, thereby streamlining operations and ensuring the most favorable outcomes. IBM researchers, for example, have partnered with scientists from two healthcare systems to use AI to examine EHRs for clues about the warning signs of heart failure, which has long been the leading cause of death in the U.S. As a result, the team was able to develop a model that predicted this malady as much as two years earlier than previous methods.