The Coronavirus pandemic has brought a concern for the complete world. With the increase in numbers, the healthcare industry is searching for innovative methods to gain quick and accurate results. Among the different emerging technologies, artificial intelligence is one of the promising factors. Artificial intelligence in healthcare helps us analyze information, recognize patterns, and trends to recognize the long-term health dangers inaccurate ways. Its utilization in diagnostics and treatment allows for better health outcomes.

The world is changing rapidly and so does technology. Artificial intelligence which was once just a word of sci-fi is now catching its speed into reality. According to the Globe and Mail " Artificial intelligence research leads to new applications" in reforming every sector starting from education, e-commerce, business, construction, healthcare, etc, thus impacting them to their core. Artificial intelligence in the times of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the healthcare industry. Thanks to AI, technical advancements are helping medical professionals to treat their patients with ease and accuracy. Moreover, a study by Statista states that the market of AI in the field of healthcare will surge up to $28 million by the year 2025.

Public health organizations, healthcare providers, hospitals and others on the frontline of COVID-19 response have had to act quickly to support the sudden spike in inquiries from patients and constituents looking to get answers to a common set of requests such as up-to-date outbreak information, assess symptoms and risk factors for people worried about infection, and suggest a next course of action. Many of these organizations have expressed concerns with being able to support the volumes of inquiries, and consequently have been using the Microsoft Healthcare Bot to help provide critical information to their patients. Microsoft's Healthcare Bot is a scalable Azure-based SaaS solution that empowers Microsoft customers and partners to build and deploy compliant, AI-powered health agents, allowing them to offer their users intelligent, personalized access to health-related information and interactions through a natural conversation experience. It is one solution that uses AI to help the CDC and other frontline organizations to provide help to those who need it. The Healthcare Bot can easily be customized to suit an organizations scenarios and protocols.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a COVID-19 assessment bot, a chatbot that people can turn to for advice about whether they may be infected with coronavirus, officially called COVID-19. The tool is available on the CDC website, by clicking on the Coronavirus Self-Checker option. The bot asks questions like the location of the patient, their age and symptoms, their gender, and whether they have had recent contact with someone who has been confirmed to be sick. Then it suggests a course of action, whether it is to stay at home in isolation or to seek emergency care. The idea is to triage patients more efficiently into those who need immediate care and those who can safely stay at home and wait for the illness to run its course.

Last year, I posted about Alexa being able used to access complex health information. Microsoft, on the other hand, has taken a different approach to the use of a chatbot/AI for healthcare. Instead of the chatbot being able to access your health record, why not have it answer routine questions patients have prior to an appointment? With this goal in mind, Microsoft has created the Microsoft Healthcare Bot, which is a service that allows healthcare organizations to streamline their processes, and take some of the workload off of their staff. What I like about this service is that it allows for "basic" questions to be answered – issues like clinic hours, when results can be expected, or whether to fast before a blood test, can all be answered. It also has a built-in escalation system, where if a patient needs more information, or if they can't get the answer they need, the AI will pass them on to a person who can answer their questions with the current transcript, ensuring a smooth patient experience.

Over the last 10 years, we have come to see robots perform and execute jobs that were once exclusive to humans – be it, manufacturing cars or filling warehouse orders. As of today, we are no strangers to the fact that there are multiple industries that AI/ML have significantly impacted over the last couple years. However, the integration of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare with a chatbot as your doctor is set to witness a significant paradigm shift. We are already seeing image recognition algorithms assist in detecting diseases at an astounding rate and are only beginning to scratch the surface. Chatbots are slowly being adopted within healthcare, albeit being in their nascent stage.

Artificial Intelligence is impacting healthcare in the same way that OBD impacted automobiles a few decades ago. With the combination of data and machine learning, AI is moving healthcare to a much more automated, efficient, interactive, and intelligent state. But how will AI impact the future of Healthcare? The most significant way Artificial Intelligence has transformed healthcare is through data analysis and management. AI can store, connect, and skim through patient data to identify medical problems and diagnose them through highly accurate clinical decisions.

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