Nellore: The conference on Futuristic Nursing being held at Narayana Nursing College here has discussed at length aspects of patient safety as also use of artificial intelligence and tele-medicine, apart from mobile health and sensor-based technologies (smartphones, smartphone apps and wearable technologies). More than 800 nurses are participating in the meet and around 40 eminent nursing leaders across the globe discussing the latest in nursing practices during the 3-day conference from Saturday. In a paper on'Artificial Intelligence in Nursing' presented jointly by Dr Ramesh M.Sc Phd, HoD Medical Surgical Nursing, St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia, and Dr S. Indira, Dean of Narayana Nursing College, said AI offers three advantages over traditional methods -- the ability to quickly consider large volumes of data in risk prediction, increased intervention specificity (accurately flagging patients most at-risk) and automated adjustments in variable selection and calculation. "AI can help detect which patient features are most important in public health applications, allowing for more focused preventive interventions. Robots may aid nursing care tasks in hazardous clinical environments and they have the potential to automate some tasks."

Kolkata, Aug 26: The West Bengal Forest Department is exploring the possibility of a sensor-based technology to track the various sounds made by elephants to track their exact location. The move is a significant stride towards mitigating the problem of elephant deaths on railway tracks in north Bengal. This will be the first time in the country that such a technology will be used, said a senior official of the Forest Department. He said that the high-frequency sounds made by an elephant are audible but they also make low-frequency sounds that are inaudible to the human ear; this is where the technology will help. The technology will use artificial intelligence to recognise such sound within a fixed radius.