{"id":7198,"date":"2021-04-13T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T07:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T07:03:36","slug":"how-ai-is-shaping-the-telemedicine-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/how-ai-is-shaping-the-telemedicine-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI is Shaping the Telemedicine Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Do you know \u2018Coronavirus\u2019 topped the list of Google Searches, 2020? Yes, Google processes billions of searches every day, and not surprisingly, \u2018Coronavirus\u2019 turned out to be the most searched term on Google in the erstwhile 2020. Why? Because people cared for their life. When life becomes uncertain, people seek answers.<\/em> This phase in humanity brings about a transition in the world of digital healthcare where telemedicine comes out to be a unanimous choice! Advancements in AI as a cutting edge technology, its applications in telemedicine happened years ago. However, with the onset of COVID-19, telemedicine is back in full swing. In layman\u2019s language, it is a digital application that allows doctors to prescribe medications, treat patients through their screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s see how AI transformative capabilities are helping the telemedicine industry the world over.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Digitization of Patient-Doctor Relationship<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in collaboration with Edge technology, has empowered the telemedicine industry to a greater level. With the help of AI, telemedicine is evolving patient care and healthcare experience through smooth accessibility. It helps in remote patient monitoring(RPM) or telemonitoring that gathers patients\u2019 data from medical centers, hospitals, to keep a tab on their health conditions. Telemedicine has been a major factor in treating COVID-19 while curbing its speed at the same time. For instance, AI technology helping telemedicine for remote-patient monitoring, where doctors could track the current health status of high-risk patients, by using internet-connected at-home devices and mobile applications where two-way communication becomes feasible. This process minimizes the health risks for elderly patients or post-op patients or those suffering from chronic illness.AI enabled Telemedicine facilitates collecting data from varied connected devices and gives insights to doctors who then do adjustments in care and monitoring of compliances for severe patients like coronary patients. The latter need to maintain specific medication and lifestyle changes to make progress in their health respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Enabling Doctors\u2019 Collaboration<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

AI feeds on data and new AI applications come to the fore when more data pools come out of the telemedicine processes like remote-care, and so on. Moreover, AI-based telemedicine facilitates hospitals, healthcare institutions, and clinics, doctors to mutually collaborate in novel ways. This way, they manage to pool resources from each other at critical times. For example, Banner Health, one of the largest non-profit systems existing in the US, during the surge of COVID-19 patients, collaborated with Intel, as well as VeeMEd, a telehealth platform, and brought AI-powered telemedicine software solutions to more than one thousand in-room televisions throughout \u00a0Banner-Health\u2019s twenty-eight facilities in the country. This collaboration helped specialists (from pulmonology, infectious diseases, cardiology, critical care, nephrology) in the facilities to attend to more patients without risking COVID transmission. Another big help had been that these specialists did not need to spend on expensive personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, and face shields and could preserve them for emergency needs. All thanks to AI-powered telemedicine that allowed(and allowing) consulting with patients on a remote basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. HIT or the Health Information Technology<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

AI-powered telemedicine facilitates the collecting, storing, and managing of massive electronic data in varied healthcare systems. This AI capability is called Health Information Technology(HIT) in telemedicine terminology. For instance, several electronic health records, e-prescriptions, etc. help patients and doctors to meet their mutual goals towards coping with diseases like diabetes, flu, viral diseases, etc. All these data are processed using HIT. How does it work? AI algorithms in HIT facilitate retrieving, systemizing medical data in various healthcare institutions, hospitals. Artificial Intelligence(AI) is helping in the segment of health information system in the following two ways-<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n