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The Indian healthcare industry is of the view that convergence of AI and wearable technology will stall emergency medical interventions. With the advancement of AI and wearable technology, the healthcare industry is experiencing a seismic shift.
According to Ayush Jain, CEO, Mindbowser Inc, this country’s healthcare system faces challenges, including a large population, diverse geographical terrain, and limited access to quality healthcare in rural areas. AI-powered wearables offer a promising solution to bridge these gaps, providing continuous health monitoring and early intervention capabilities to millions of Indians, regardless of their location.
With AI’s brainpower and wearables’ real-time data, healthcare is becoming smarter, faster, and more accessible. These devices, aided by AI, can track and analyze patterns to identify potential health issues before they become critical. By examining patient data including symptoms, medical history, and genetic information, AI algorithms can identify patterns humans might miss. This capability enables AI systems to flag early warning signs for conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and even certain cancers, often before symptoms become noticeable, he added.
With AI, doctors can focus on high-risk patients earlier, allowing them to intervene sooner, leading to better health outcomes. This is particularly crucial in a country where preventive healthcare has traditionally been underemphasized, and where late diagnosis often leads to more severe health outcomes.
The combination of wearable data with AI-driven analysis is a true game-changer. Wearables generate vast amounts of data, which AI can interpret to spot health trends and potential issues with greater accuracy. For instance, AI can detect heart irregularities from wearable data, sometimes weeks before symptoms appear. This combination also makes it possible to manage chronic diseases more effectively, as patients and healthcare providers receive constant insights tailored to their needs, noted Jain.
The AI-wearable revolution has the potential to deliver truly personalised healthcare at an unprecedented scale. By continuously collecting and analyzing individual health data, AI algorithms can create highly tailored health profiles for each user. These personalised profiles enable healthcare professionals to develop customised treatment plans and interventions based on an individual's unique physiological responses and lifestyle factors. Such a shift would not only enhance patient outcomes but also reduce the burden on India’s healthcare system.
Even as the potential of AI-wearables in healthcare is immense, there are challenges to overcome. Ensuring data privacy and security, improving the accuracy and reliability of sensors, and addressing issues of algorithmic bias are all critical areas that require ongoing attention and innovation, he said.
By enabling early interventions and personalised care, AI and wearables are helping to build a healthcare system that is proactive rather than reactive. With continuous monitoring, predictive analytics, and personalized interventions, we are ushering in a new era of healthcare, the one where early intervention becomes the norm, and optimal health is within reach for all, said Jain.
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