The greatest blessing for human beings is that they learn. The coronavirus outbreak had accelerated our quest for getting prepared before any future pathogenic outbreaks occur. The Covid-19 pandemic has awfully shook the entire world. One of the reasons maybe that the world was not ready or was not expecting such a scenario. With the governments and organizations around the world seeking all possible ways to combat the crisis, one powerful defence against the pandemics is AI. The 4 likely ways AI will come to the rescue and prevention are:
- Detecting the next outbreak
Spotting of a new pathogenic disease outbreak becomes easy with applying AI algorithms to data collected from the social media, different news websites and many IOT devices around the world. According to reports, one tech-start-up company from Toronto, Canada using AI had successfully predicted and alerted about the Covid-19 and the countries who were at the risk of contagion in the month of December last year.
- Tracking the pathogenic diseases
Applying machine learning to the huge data warehouses containing databases from health systems, air travel records, location data, so on and so forth, it becomes easy to track down the spreading of the disease.
- Risk analysis
AI driven machines can also provide reports on the analysis of the danger associated with the disease. It can easily forecast the number of pathogen carriers, number of people at risk of contagion, speed at which the disease is spreading and mortality rate. The understanding of which can give governments and organisations to take necessary measures well in advance.
- Rapid diagnosis
Today many healthcare professional are risking their live in the fight against Covid-19 in providing medical care to the affected. But in the near future, AI will help take the burden off them by making diagnosis of diseases faster by computing the symptoms recorded from a suspected patient and by helping with the genome sequencing methods and modelling.
Now, there is clearly no disregard to the importance of AI and big data analytics in the healthcare sector for fighting any future pandemic. The demand for healthcare professionals who are well equipped with experience in handling AI and big data analytics is surely going to be high in demand.
