5 ways AI is changing healthcare: Personalized medicine, predictive analysis, more

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AI has been revolutionizing the healthcare industry by offering novel ways of tackling diseases and conducting diagnosis and treatment. Know all about it.

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Personalized medicine is the branch of healthcare that creates precision medicine based on the genetic makeup of an individual.

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This means using AI for medication for a disease made for a particular individual will consider factors such as allergies, side effects, prior medical conditions making a drug ineffective, potency of the drug, and more.

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Predictive analysis: This branch of healthcare deals with using historical data of a patient in order to find out the kind of diseases and ailments they can suffer in the future.

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AI uses large datasets to analyze the familial medical history, allergies, frequent illnesses and other factors to prepare an in-depth chart for the individual that contains information regarding the diseases they need to be careful about.

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Drug discovery: Many health tech startups are working on finding new drugs and more potent antibiotics to effectively trigger certain pathogens and diseases. 

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Such drug discovery would have taken humans decades of research without AI.

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Medical imaging analysis: AI can help in analyzing X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs in a fraction of the time it takes humans to. This can lead to faster diagnosis and higher precision.

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Keeping database: AI can also be used as a knowledge database for all complicated cases, their diagnosis and treatment that worked, to create a global assistant that can quickly bring up such cases when detecting an unusual disease.