Potential Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Research Applications: Inevitable Disruptive Technologies for Prospective Healthcare

Potential Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Research Applications: Inevitable Disruptive Technologies for Prospective Healthcare

S. Uma
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6937-8.ch017
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Abstract

Hospitals are experiencing an increase in patients due to the prevalence of chronic diseases and the growing elderly population. As a result, every day, a large volume of patient health data is generated, which must be stored and managed effectively. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has played a pivotal role in preventing, diagnosing, treating diseases and rehabilitating patients in the past few decades. Innovations and scientific breakthroughs have improved patient outcomes and population health as the healthcare industry has embraced the digital age. Hence, digital transformation is no longer an option, but rather an industry standard. Though, Biomedical engineering (BE) contributes to improving patient care quality, future healthcare applications will rely on AI enabled BE to solve complex healthcare issues. This book chapter uncovers the potential of AI and BE as a powerful tool for solving some of the most challenging issues of our age and brings comparable changes in scale to the renaissance, the Industrial Revolution in the healthcare sector.
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AI seems more feasible than ever due to advancements in computing and processing power, coupled with hardware modernizations. The most significant AI breakthroughs of recent years can be attributed to machine learning. Instead of giving AI a fixed set of directions, AI models for healthcare applications is trained using large data sets to overcome the bias in outcomes. Increasing data generation from healthcare has led to potential improvements in accountability, quality, efficiency, and innovation. A great deal of research and innovation is conducted within the healthcare industry and hospital workflows. This is done with the goal of improving patient safety, reducing physician stress levels, and increasing the overall state of healthcare.

Gene technology, based on bioinformatics, offers enormous benefits for disease prevention and health care. The field of medical informatics today includes the concept of linking information sources through information and communication technology, enabling medical personnel to access information from a distance regardless of whether it comes from a patient's body or from an electronic archive (Snyder et al. 2011).

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