by Ori Kitov, March 16, 2022
An ideal health system for me means a system that diagnoses at a “supersonic” speed, adapts the appropriate treatment to each person on the basis of genome sequencing, and this, by extensive use of big data and artificial intelligence.
Such diagnosis and treatment shall free the talented existing manpower in health systems worldwide from nowadays daily “gray” and old-fashioned chores and tasks that are not directly related to the care of patients, and thus would allow health systems worldwide to concentrate on developing more innovative and more disruptive ways of diagnosing and treating people.
So, how is it really going to happen? How will the world be able to take its health system one step (or maybe dozen (!) steps) forward?
- Big Data Bases. Creation of vast databases that will include, among other things, the genetic sequencing of each potential patient of the same system. These databases will form the ground for information cross-references and innovative analyzes of potential diseases and treatments. Genetic sequencing should allow, through the use of artificial intelligence (as discussed below), to increase the pace of work, the effectiveness of treatments and to make the diagnosis more accurate.
- Data analysis by using Artificial intelligence. Once huge databases are built, we will actually have the ultimate infrastructure for cross-referencing information, followed by drawing groundbreaking conclusions. This, of course, will be done through artificial intelligence. Just for example, imagine a situation where a person came to the hospital following a heart attack, and according to his genomic data and unequivocal statistics, the artificial intelligence system will alert his doctors that there is a 90% chance that in the next two months the patient will also suffer from hearing loss.
- The ability to provide appropriate treatment, in advance (!) for a medical problem that seems to nowadays medicine, is amazing, groundbreaking and depends on the execution capabilities of business companies to integrate artificial intelligence and big data.
