How Will AI Affect Health and Wellness & Self Care In The Future?
November 5, 2024 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Artificial Intelligence (AI) has entered spaces in our lives that were hitherto undreamed of. In both obvious and subtle ways, we have begun to accept its presence in a range of fields. In 2011, IBM's Watson astonished us all by effortlessly answering the trickiest of questions on the quiz show Jeopardy. Since then, AI systems have evolved above and beyond mere data retrieval.
Today, AI has become a major resource in healthcare across the world. Along with robotics, AI is deployed in research, training, diagnosis and early detection, treatment protocols, decision making, palliative and end of life care, and increasingly in self care and wellness.
AI in Healthcare
The presence of AI in healthcare covers interactions between all the stakeholders, including providers and consumers of healthcare services, pharma companies and retailers and also research, payment and billing, documentation and monitoring.
AI led algorithms are capable of sophisticated diagnosis, often outperforming human medical professionals. What we term AI is not one system, but a collection of technologies that work in combination to provide the necessary outcomes.
These technologies are already forging ahead in early detection, location and identification of tumors, with a very high degree of accuracy, eliminating the need for expensive and unnecessary biopsies and tests. This is especially significant in fields such as breast cancer, where early detection can benefit the patient.
People suffering from cardiac disease can use a variety of wearable devices to monitor their parameters and provide real time data that will give warning of risk and cardiac episodes.
One of the big advantages of AI in healthcare is that it can give physicians and clinicians a more holistic view of the issue at hand. Today, with increasing super-specialization, many physicians tend to work in a very narrow focus. This can negatively impact treatment outcomes when the impact on other parts or systems of the body is neglected.
AI is already taking care of routine tasks such as data entry, maintaining and updating patient health records, scheduling appointments and refilling prescriptions.
Surgical robots have been around for a few decades now and have become more advanced and capable of performing complex surgeries and procedures.
Wellness and Healthcare: AI in the Future
Leveraging the power and capabilities of AI systems, humans can reduce their dependence on doctors and external medical facilities to a large extent. Using the IoT (Internet of Things) along with AI technology helps people to monitor their own health to a large extent. This is done by the use of wearables and apps that can provide a steady stream of real time information.
Today most people are capable of monitoring their glucose levels themselves if they are diabetic, or their blood pressure levels if they have hypertension or high blood pressure.
Similarly, as technologies advance, AI systems help you to stay in control of your own health, and take ownership of your wellness. This makes you more independent and proactive, eliminating possibilities of exploitation, unnecessary medication or misdiagnosis.
Wellness apps help you to monitor your nutrition, exercise and sleep. They can help you to avoid stress, take charge of time management and ensure that you remain aware of your own wellbeing. Apps can also monitor your mental and emotional states, and ensure that you come off Fight or Flight responses at the right time, and move into the Rest and Digest state. For more information on how you can spend more time in the Rest and Digest state - visit restanddigest.com.au - your self care, wellness and relaxation resource for a healthier life and lifestyle.
Future AI based care will see a variety of organizations investing heavily in such technologies. This could also come with its own set of potential risks such as data breach, ethical problems or issues concerning regulation of AI systems. With technology advancing at breakneck speed, we still don't know the full capability of AI. These systems could become more intelligent, conscious and aware than they are today, leading to fears of losing control to the machines. Though this remains in the realm of science fiction, scientists are already contemplating these issues and trying to find solutions before things get out of hand.
In spite of all the apprehensions, AI and robotics provide immense benefits at more affordable rates to sections of the population that may never have been able to afford or access them.
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