From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure
Current medical analysis has proven that artificial intelligence can help predict future illnesses.
This declare was made on the third Public Well being Grand Spherical organized by the College of Public Well being, Ondo State College of Medical Sciences, Ondo the place medical consultants had been gathered for deliberations on the future of public well being.
On the programme, themed “Stopping the Subsequent Pandemic: Use of Artificial Intelligence for Epidemic Monitoring and Alerts,” the visitor lecturer, Prof Oluwadiya Kehinde who’s a surgeon and Data Expertise guru, mentioned, “AI used Machine studying strategies can be leveraged upon to forestall the unfold of lethal infectious disease outbreak.”
He said that “AI helps to course of medical knowledge which well being care employees can interpret to enhance well being outcomes.”
He mentioned, “It can be utilized to public well being within the space of predicting communicable disease outbreaks and the path that surveillance will take in the direction of disease prevention and management.”
Whereas talking on the occasion, the Vice-Chancellor, UNIMED, Prof Adesegun Fatusi described “Artificial Intelligence as a computer-driven trendy and modern technique that each healthcare employee ought to embrace and be taught its operations. AI can pre-scan medical pictures and flag these of them which might be uncommon and direct the road of administration”.
The Dean of the College of Public Well being, Prof Olalekan Adebimpe noticed that “pathogens or microbes are fighting people for survival. A part of their technique is to catch people unaware, prefer it did throughout COVID-19. Artificial intelligence can help to predict future disease outbreaks and place us for environment friendly epidemic preparedness.”
The programme was attended by healthcare professionals, medical practitioners, employees and college students of the college.