Is AI The Way Forward For Global Health? -- AI Daily - Artificial Intelligence News

Despite huge advancements and progress in the world of global health over the past decades, many middle and low-income countries are still falling behind, unable to reach their sustainable development goals. This, in turn, is creating an urgency to prioritize wellbeing, and AI holds enormous promise in transforming the provision of healthcare in resource strained environments. The Artificial Intelligence in Global Health report, funded by the USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, outlined 27 cases of AI in global healthcare, and the massive potential it holds for drastically improving health in LEDC's. The use of AI was split into four key areas - population health, patient and front line health worker virtual assistants, and physician clinical decision support. Not only does the report provide solutions that could improve the access, quality, and effectiveness of global healthcare, but it also takes into account the current maturity of AI systems and the feasibility of these solutions.