Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare in Pakistan: Opportunities and Challenges

Rehman Siddiqui; Atif Zafar; Saad Ahmed Qazi

doi:10.47391/JPMA.23-70

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association (Sep 2023)

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare in Pakistan: Opportunities and Challenges

Rehman Siddiqui,
Atif Zafar,
Saad Ahmed Qazi

Affiliations

Rehman Siddiqui: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Atif Zafar: St. Michael's Hospital, Department of Neurology, University of Toronto, Canada;
Saad Ahmed Qazi: Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology; and Neurocomputation Lab, National Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Karachi, Pakistan.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.23-70
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 73, no. 10

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare across the world. However, in Pakistan, the use of AI in healthcare is still in its early stages. AI has the potential to improve healthcare delivery, particularly in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).1,2 In the Pakistani context, AI presents an opportunity to address the scarcity of healthcare workforce and resources in Pakistan.3 In particular, AI can help bridge the healthcare gap by providing services to underserved populations in rural and remote areas of the country.4 Continue...

Artificial Intelligence

Published in Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

ISSN: 0030-9982 (Print)
Publisher: Pakistan Medical Association
Country of publisher: Pakistan
LCC subjects: Medicine
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