The public health sector is using artificial intelligence to prepare for pandemics, VentureBeat reported Nov. 7.
Four ways AI can help fight the next pandemic:
- AI can analyze massive amounts of data, such as positive test results and emerging clusters of disease, and use predictive analytics to establish trends that can be useful for public health officials.
- Natural language processing, an AI and machine learning-powered technology, can be used to monitor online information about the spread of disease.
- Hospitals are using AI algorithms to track the spread of diseases such as sepsis.
- AI can diagnose diseases earlier than human clinicians. Recently, AI has been used to diagnose patients with Alzheimer's.