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Artificial Intelligence can be used to innovate our health system  even more . It can be done either in the diagnosis phase, the medicine production, vaccine discovery, prediction of pandemics, and so on. We already discussed some examples in the diagnosis phase, now let's talk about using AI to bring new ways of doing your tasks. Pills - Photo by  freestocks  on  Unsplash Developing a new medicine is difficult. It requires many hours of work and investing tons of money. Different steps are required to bring a new medicine into the market. Still, some of the new drugs prove to be a failure before even reaching the final stage. There is where AI can become such a powerful tool for saving money and focusing the research through the best type of drugs . All started to be a real thing when we had the first robot founding some new gene functions in the yeast [1]. Another robot also discovered that a drug called triclosan, used in our toothpaste, can be used to f...

Unffornatelly, in the past months, the humankind is facing one of the worst pandemic cases of history (COVID-19). I want to begin by thanking each and everyone that are, were and will help our people. Not only the health professionals but also all the people helping each other, even just by staying at home, as we must be.  Human cancer cells This situation made us stop. Stop not only because we are at home, but also stop to think about this madness. We and our loved ones are in danger. Moreover, we do not know when it will be over, it is a new virus with new behaviours and no medicines available so far. This is terrifying. Well, I started thinking about how AI could help us with this pandemic and how AI is nowadays being used to help the health systems across all countries. I did a little research and I am presenting to you an overview of what being done with AI. Furthermore, I will give to you some hints of what is being thought of to be done in the future. The AI's u...