Artificial Intelligence All-in-One For Dummies
by Chris Minnick, John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron, Stephanie Diamond, Pam Baker, Daniel Stanton, Shiv Singh, Paul Mladjenovic, Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts, Jeffrey Allan
Chapter 2
Using AI to Address Medical Needs
IN THIS CHAPTER
Monitoring patients more effectively
Assisting humans in various tasks
Analyzing patient needs locally and remotely
Performing surgery and other tasks by medical professionals
Medicine is complicated. There’s a reason it can take 15 or more years to train a doctor, depending on specialty. The creation of new technologies, approaches, and other factors all conspire to make the task even more complex. At some point, it becomes impossible for any lone person to become proficient in even a narrow specialty. This is a prime reason that an irreplaceable human requires consistent, logical, and unbiased help in the form of an AI. The process begins by helping the doctor monitor patients in ways that humans would simply find impossible. That’s true because the number of checks is high, the need to perform them in a certain order and in a specific way is critical, and the potential for error is monumental.
Fortunately, people have more options today than ever before for doing many medical-related tasks on their own. For example, ...
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