| |April 20189AI IS RADICALLY GOING TO AFFECT KEY AREAS IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE FOR DIAGNOSIS, IMAGE RECOGNITION AND MOREintelligence or AI will act like assist-ed intelligence for the clinician in this space and while the doctor will take the final call, AI will quickly process the vast patient data and im-ages, may be able to match with simi-lar historical data and would throw a few most likely diagnosis and treat-ment to consider. Already successful implementation of this in the field of cancer radiology, cardiovascu-lar, neuro, ophthalmology to name a few are in use and more are likely to follow. EHR vendors need to take an-alytics seriouslyThe short answer is to remain a rele-vant for healthcare service provider. If a vendor chooses not to include an-alytics or business intelligence, it is quite likely that it will lose out to an-other solution, which has it includ-ed. Hence, there is already a positive pressure to do so. Healthcare pro-duces copious amount of data, be it clinical or operational. With the ad-vent of cloud, BI tools, mobility, etc., the ability to provide new insights for enhanced patient care as well as run a smoother efficient operation at a cost effective manner has become possible. With the EHR already being the source of much data, it is the pre-ferred application for the health care institutionto providing analytics. As telemedicine becomes mainstream across the continu-um of care, a growing number of long-term care (LTC) providers are beginning to see the benefits. Telemedicine has come a long way from the days of providing a form of video conferencing con-necting a patient to a Healthcare provider and even though this setup was available for over a couple of decades, it had not proved much successful for both the parties involved. However, much has changed in the recent few years with the advent of cloud-based services, mobility, wearable connected devices and analytics, remote viewing and monitoring, AR haptic touch de-vices and so on such that a whole host of real time clinical infor-mation is also available at the click of mouse while a very high resolution video consultation is in progress. Additionally, with smart monitoring and alerting, a consultation or intervention could be initiated based on cer-tain triggers quickly. Already cardiovascular patients, expect-ant mothers with higher risk and certain geriatric patients who need continuous long-term care are benefiting from some form of telemedicine and remote care. C I Sumit Singh
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