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AI and Health Care - Part IV (Fighting COVID-19)

In my earliest posts, we saw some examples of AI use in our health care systems. Some approaches use AI to develop new tools, other ones use AI to identify new medicines or diseases. Moreover, we also have AI systems to analyse data and predict future events. All of these examples are only the tip of the development line in the AI field.  Doctor - Photo by  Ashkan Forouzani  on  Unsplash To improve our way of life many companies and universities are investing millions. Their goal is to bring us the best AI systems. Indeed, some of them still have some output errors. Consequently, the companies are studying why they face those errors and how they can overcome these problems. I believe that in the next couple of years we will start to see the health care systems revolution, mostly due to AI integration and evolution. The first successful AI projects are now available, so its a matter of time until AI positively improve our health systems.  COVID-19 produced chaos in our world, however

AI and Health Care - Part III (Predicting the future?)

After learning about some examples of AI applications in the diagnosis phase and in the development of new tools, let's talk about AI and predicting the future.  Everyone dreams of the ability to predict the future. Such an ability could avoid some problems in our daily life. Data Analysis -  Photo by  Carlos Muza  on  Unsplash Could AI leverage us to reach that desired dream? We all heard about predicting AI algorithms applied especially on our economy. However, the big question here is: Can we use AI to predict diseases, new diseases, or even pandemics? Do we already have this kind of algorithms? Google's Scientists developed an AI system capable of analyzing scans of the back of an eye so it can predict data about the patients [1]. Some of the predicted data is related to the person's age, blood pressure, or if he/she smokes. Such indicators are directly related to cardiac events , like heart attacks. Thus, using this method, we do not need blood tests to get the