Artificial Intelligence

Predictive analytics in EHRs aren't yet effective enough for clinical decision support at the point of care.

For artificial intelligence to demonstrate true sentience, it would have to go beyond using natural language, and show thinking, perception and feeling.

While it feels like it was only yesterday that Expo 2020 Dubai opened its doors, the first World Expo in the MEASA region concluded last month. Dubai-based Rachel McArthur asks whether we will follow through on the lessons learned in healthcare from the event.

AI, augmented reality, biomedical sensors and beyond – by mapping out a clear vision now, we can widen our ambitions and improve modernization strategies to better harness the vast potential offered by technology advances.

Despite significant investment and well over a decade of different transformation plans and initiatives, there’s still much to do before we can say the health and care system has truly gone through a digital revolution.

Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue.

While RPA has proved its success for some administrative functions, other technologies are emerging as options to help address the worker shortage and reduce workload in clinical and operational areas.

As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

Areas of opportunity include data analytics for research, enhancing EHR capabilities and using AI algorithms to support patient care and operational efficiency, says Mike Restuccia.

Digital technologies are constantly changing. Hardware is getting faster and more efficient. Software can harness these hardware improvements to improve the functionality of technology. And so healthcare staff and citizens will hopefully have access to tools that allow tasks to be completed quicker, or more intuitively according to Dr Pritesh Mistry, King's Fund, UK.