Journal of Primary Care Specialties (Jan 2021)

Impact of artificial intelligence and big data on the healthcare profession?

  • Raman Kumar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jopcs.jopcs_21_21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 61 – 62

Abstract

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If one looks back on human history, there are cycles of civilizational growth and destruction. One can admire the craftsmanship and statesmanship from the past as we move forward and create the future of new complexities. We are at the crossroad of human history. Social media and digital infrastructure have already changed the social transactions of human beings forever. Intelligent robots, drones, digital monitoring, ever-evolving decision-making algorithms, consumer analytics are impacting human transaction. The rapidly enabling tech environment is bound to have a long-lasting impact on the human interface of the healthcare delivery system; the medical professionals and the healthcare workers.

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