How BlueDot predicted Coronavirus using Artificial Intelligence?

Coronavirus is spreading like wildfire across the whole world. The virus originated from the city of Wuhan in China has engulfed the lives of 722 people across the world till now while in China itself there are more than 34,000 people infected by this deadly disease.

This deadly outbreak came into news when the WHO (World Health Organization) issued a public notice on 9th January 2020 that flu has spread in China and has originated from the live animal market in Wuhan. But what’s more interesting is the fact that even before WHO notified this, there was a company that predicted some alarming health threat to its customers on December 31st itself.

What Exactly Did BlueDot Do To Accurately Predict In this Incident?

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BlueDot, an artificial intelligence company based out of Canada had already sent a caution to its customers about a potential outbreak. The company BlueDot is a health monitoring platform that evaluates billions of data available online and uses it to monitor public health threats. It works on Natural Language and Machine learning techniques to filter data of airlines, news reports, and animal-related outbreaks. Their team of highly skilled epidemiologists monitors the scanned results and accordingly sends warning to their customers across the globe.

According to the company, it uses data analytics to keep track on the world’s most dangerous diseases and outbreaks. Being a reliable name in the market it secured funding of whopping $10 million last August. Moreover, the company predicted the outbreak of Zika virus and its source location as well last year.

Clearly, expertise on AI technology has led company to provide such faster solutions with location of outbreak. This is why, healthcare industry can find so many innovative solution with the use of AI alone.

Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Healthcare Industry

Artificial intelligence is surely going to play a major role in finding advance solutions for the future. If we consider the projections of Frost & Sullivan, AI systems are said to have a net worth of around $6 billion by 2021. Moreover, a recent study by McKinsey predicted healthcare as one of the major industries with more than 50 use cases that would involve AI and machine learning. And if we believe their latest report, AI-based startups have raised 1billion USD till now.

For this AI tools have to be developed. And in order to build health tools companies would require services of leading Artificial intelligence companies. In our research, one would require to take care of 3 basic things in order to create such a solution.

1. Patients

2. Doctors

3. Operations

With the help of AI tools and bots, one can take of a patient’s medical journey. Moreover, it can make record-keeping and retrieval a smooth and easy process without the necessity to go artificially to check a document of the book an appointment.

Let’s have a look at major revolutions that AI technology brings in the healthcare industry.

Major Advantages of Incorporating AI in the Healthcare Industry

Easy Handling

AI increases the ability for healthcare professionals to get better and thereby increase their understanding of their patients by giving them proper care, feedback, guidance, and support for staying healthy.

Early Detection

With the use of AI one can get up to 99 percent accurate results for diseases like cancers, tumors thereby reducing the necessity to go for unnecessary biopsies. Therefore it gives ample time to decide what’s better for a patient.

Treatment

With the help of AI, not only surgeries but repetitive lab works, along with the rehabilitation phase, physical therapy, etc could also be taken care of with ease. It can be done with a smart robot or a smart app can surely make the job easier.

Research

Developing a new drug for patients is a tough task especially considering the time and money it takes to reach a patient. With AI, both cost and time could be limited hence research companies can get approvals faster.

Smart Watches

With smart watches, patients need not worry about their vitals as a wearable device connected with a mobile application can take care of heartbeats, pulses, Blood pressure and other vitals reducing the threatening signs.

Training

A smart computer-based on AI, it can instantly draw the information from a large database which a human can’t do. Therefore it saves time for the preparation of complex operations, writing important documents, etc which can be used to improve training work

Conclusion

Every day we hear of new diseases penetrating different parts of the world. Many of those diseases are threatening to life. Of course, there are solutions available for various diseases but those can only be useful at certain stages in case of diseases like corona virus, AIDS and other fatal diseases.

So, the best practice to minimize the risk is to invest in the right technology like Artificial Intelligence. Using AI in research, innovation can open a lot of ways to improve the way the healthcare industry works.

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