The (Sober) State of Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against COVID-19

If you ask us at The Medical Futurist about the importance of artificial intelligence in healthcare, we will have a lot to talk about. We’ve seen how it could solve alarm fatigue in hospitals. We’ve analyzed the unusual associations the technology discovered in medicine. We believe it will usher the real era of the Art of Medicine. Dr. Meskó even embarked on a journey to better understand the language of A.I.

So of course, with the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to explore the contribution of A.I. in this public health crisis. We came across promising endeavours involving such algorithms from mining for insights through tracking the spread to detecting the infection via coughs.

It’s sensible to be vigilant and to know about the potential privacy issues and dangers that come with the use of such new technologies in unprecedented times. However, these developments we elaborate upon below will help us better prepare for future outbreaks.