Date: 8th September 2024
Authors: Vinh Pham
Country: United States
Source: Bernard Marr
SUMMARY
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making big changes in healthcare. It's changing how doctors work, how we do medical research, and how patients get care. AI can help doctors better guess what's wrong with a patient. It can also help find better ways to treat people. This new technology allows us to make healthcare better, more personal, and easier to get. But it also brings some problems we need to think about. We need to keep people's private information safe and ensure we use AI fairly. As AI keeps getting better, it's changing how we do medicine all around the world. It might help us give better healthcare to everyone
BACKGROUND
AI in healthcare started to get big in the early 2000s. But in the last ten years, it's grown a lot. This is because computers have become much stronger and we have more information to work with now. When we talk about AI in healthcare, we mean lots of different things. It can be computer programs that learn to spot diseases, programs that can read and understand medical records, or even programs that can look at X-rays and scans like a doctor would.
AI is making big changes in many parts of healthcare. For example, AI can help find diseases like cancer. Sometimes, it can do this as well as human doctors, or even better. This means we might be able to find diseases earlier and help people get better faster. AI is also helping us make new medicines much faster. It used to take a very long time and cost a lot of money to make new medicines. But with AI, we can do it much quicker and cheaper. This could mean we get new treatments for diseases faster than before.
Another way AI helps is through personal medicine. AI can help doctors choose the best treatment for each person. Everyone's body is a bit different, and AI can look at a person's genes (the instructions in their body) to help pick the best medicine. This has helped in treating different kinds of cancer. AI is not just making healthcare better, it's also saving money. By 2030, people think AI could save 150 billion dollars every year in American healthcare. That's a lot of money! AI could do this by helping design better tests for new medicines, finding diseases faster, and planning better treatments.
But using AI in healthcare isn't always easy. There are some big problems we need to think about. When we use AI in healthcare, we need to use a lot of information about people's health. We need to be very careful to keep this information safe and private. We also need to make sure AI helps everyone, not just some people. If we're not careful, AI might work better for some groups of people than others. This could make some health problems even worse. Sometimes, AI might help people make very important choices about their health. We need to think carefully about when it's okay for AI to help make these big choices.
To make AI in healthcare work well, we need to do a few important things. We need to get better information. We need to make sure the information we give to AI is good and comes from all kinds of different people. This will help AI work well for everyone. We also need to make clear rules about how we can use AI in healthcare. This will help make sure we use it safely and fairly. It's important to teach doctors about AI so they can work well with it. We need to keep studying AI and finding new ways to use it in healthcare. And we need to make sure that everyone can get healthcare that uses AI, not just some people.
Some new ideas are helping us use AI better in healthcare. For example, scientists are working on AI that can explain why it makes certain choices. This helps doctors trust the AI more. Also, doctors, tech companies, and rule-makers are working together to make good rules for using AI in hospitals and clinics.
But we still have some big challenges. It costs a lot of money to start using AI in hospitals, and it can be hard to change how things are done. Also, people are still talking about how much humans should check the work that AI does in healthcare.
In conclusion, AI is going to keep making big changes in healthcare. It could help us give better, more personal medical care to people. But as we use more AI, we need to be careful. We need to think about what's right and fair and make sure AI helps everyone, not just some people. If we do this, AI could help us make healthcare better for everyone.
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