Four ways data and AI is transforming the healthcare sector - Tech Wire Asia

Of all industries and use case scenarios, nowhere might the advantages of artificial intelligence-driven data analysis be more tangibly felt than in the medical sector. Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been accelerating innovation across the biomedical and pharmaceutical landscape in recent times, and that acceleration is well evidenced by the fact that just last month, a data-driven algorithm managed to come up with a plausible solution to combat antibiotic-resistant infection strains. The algorithm managed to analyze over a hundred million different chemical compounds in a matter of days, in order to synthesize the new antibiotic, which the medical community is hailing as being able to eradicate at least 30 different strains of bacteria. This type of application of big data and AI technology is not new or revolutionary, but rather it represents one of the many recent examples of AI tech application in the healthcare industry that could be herald a new golden age of discovery in medicine. We take a look at some of the more pressing cases which are already beginning to shape not just healthcare, but how big data analysis can be perceived as a beneficial cause for changing lives.