Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries across the globe at a rapid pace. The contingencies like the COVID crisis act as a trigger to the technological adoption in healthcare and AI comes out as a boon to the industry. AI-ML-powered telemedicine is the buzzword today. AI-based telehealth services are connecting healthcare providers to their clients, doctors to patients,bringing all the stakeholders within a loop. Let's see how AI in healthcare is transforming the industry with massive digital capabilities the world over.

Our personal devices would know us more than we know ourselves. They might even increase our life span. That Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the ways of the world in the 2020s is a foregone conclusion. Perhaps its greatest--and most defining--impact would be felt on personal devices and the way humans interact with them. 'Emotion AI' systems are becoming so nuanced and powerful that our devices will soon know more about our emotional being than our friends or family ever did.

A new AI system that predicts the health spans of mice could help develop life-extension interventions for humans, according to the tool's inventors. The system analyzes established measures of frailty to gauge a mouse's chronological age and their so-called biological age -- the condition of their physical and mental functions. It was created by researchers from Harvard Medical School's Sinclair Lab, who say it's the first study to track a mouse's frailty for the duration of its life. They plan to use the predictions to quickly test interventions intended to extend the mice's lives and move towards doing the same in humans. "It can take up to three years to complete a longevity study in mice to see if a particular drug or diet slows the aging process," said study co-first author Alice Kane, a research fellow in genetics at Harvard Medical School's Sinclair Lab.

It's the ultimate unanswerable question we all face: When will I die? If we knew, would we live differently? So far, science has been no more accurate at predicting life span than a $10 fortune teller. But that's starting to change. The measures being developed will never get good enough to forecast an exact date or time of death, but insurance companies are already finding them useful, as are hospitals and palliative care teams.

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of addressing a large audience at a conference, presenting to a group of mixed professionals (including C-suite, Manager, Mid-level and executives, across a broad range of industry including IT, services govt, utilities, education, non-profit, hospital, health care, Financial services, insurance, automotive, Pharmaceuticals, aviation, aerospace, medical devices). The topic was, embracing and humanizing customer self-service channels; creating a personalized user experience in self-service channels. I have provided an overview of the presentation here for your convenience. At the conference I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Rohit Mandana and we had a very interesting discussion about life outside of our professional engagements and then as these things do, our passion for our professions jumped back in and we were back and hot on the trail of bots, chatbots, AI and the role that they are playing in reshaping life as we know it. Sure there's all the latest stuff like Google Home and Uber Driverless (although now suspended I believe this tech will proceed) but we're beyond that now.

On a velvety March evening in Mandeville Canyon, high above the rest of Los Angeles, Norman Lear's living room was jammed with powerful people eager to learn the secrets of longevity. When the symposium's first speaker asked how many people there wanted to live to two hundred, if they could remain healthy, almost every hand went up. The venture capitalists were keeping slim to maintain their imposing vitality, the scientists were keeping slim because they'd read--and in some cases done--the research on caloric restriction, and the Hollywood stars were keeping slim because of course. When Liz Blackburn, who won a Nobel Prize for her work in genetics, took questions, Goldie Hawn, regal on a comfy sofa, purred, "I have a question about the mitochondria. I've been told about a molecule called glutathione that helps the health of the cell?" Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant that protects cells and their mitochondria, which provide energy; some in Hollywood call it "the God molecule." But taken in excess it can muffle a number of bodily repair mechanisms, leading to liver and kidney problems or even the rapid and potentially fatal sloughing of your skin. Blackburn gently suggested that a varied, healthy diet was best, and that no single molecule was the answer to the puzzle of aging. Yet the premise of the evening was that answers, and maybe even an encompassing solution, were just around the corner. The party was the kickoff event for the National Academy of Medicine's Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity, which will award at least twenty-five million dollars for breakthroughs in the field. Victor Dzau, the academy's president, stood to acknowledge several of the scientists in the room. He praised their work with enzymes that help regulate aging; with teasing out genes that control life span in various dog breeds; and with a technique by which an old mouse is surgically connected to a young mouse, shares its blood, and within weeks becomes younger. Joon Yun, a doctor who runs a health-care hedge fund, announced that he and his wife had given the first two million dollars toward funding the challenge. "I have the idea that aging is plastic, that it's encoded," he said. "If something is encoded, you can crack the code." To growing applause, he went on, "If you can crack the code, you can hack the code!" It's a big ask: more than a hundred and fifty thousand people die every day, the majority of aging-related diseases. Yet Yun believes, he told me, that if we hack the code correctly, "thermodynamically, there should be no reason we can't defer entropy indefinitely. We can end aging forever." Nicole Shanahan, the founder of a patent-management business, announced that her company would oversee longevity-related patents that Yun had pledged to the cause.

Futurist and Stanford professor Paul Saffo looked out over a mostly male, mostly affluent-looking audience one morning this week and challenged them to identify the most significant event of 1989. "Fall of the Berlin Wall?" someone offered. Saffo shook his head and gestured at a slide showing a memo titled "Information Management: A Proposal," the first blueprint for what became the World Wide Web. "In terms of history, this did more to change the world," he said solemnly. His audience of 90 executives from finance, energy, and other sectors murmured and nodded approvingly--this is just the kind of perspective they came for.

In 2012 they went bankrupt. And according to a recent post by Dr Robert Goldman when technological singularity really kicks in, the same fate awaits many industries over the next decade. Self-proclaimed "Antiaging & Sports Medicine Pioneer" Dr Bob is a rather exuberant character and seemingly a big friend of the stars (he is pictured on the home page of his website with the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Yet I'm far more interested in his recent Facebook / LinkedIn post entitled'Future Predictions' which has gone viral and already been shared well over 100,000 times. Dr Goldman initially asks us to go way back to 1998 (where is the Doc's DeLorean when you need it?) It's interesting given that digital cameras had actually been invented over 20 years earlier.