What’s more important to parents than the health and well being of their children? Not much, if anything. So imagine this… your child could have a disease that an Artificial Intelligence enabled iPhone app would diagnose more than a year before doctors and all you have to do to find out is take some photos. Sound too good to be true? With the power of Artificial Intelligence, alternative health care tests, such as this one for children, could literally be in your hands right now…

A post from Government Technology explains:

“CRADLE makes use of artificial intelligence to look at baby pictures taken with a flash and pick out instances of white eye. When tested on 50,000 images of 40 children, half of whom had been diagnosed with an eye disease, the technology was able to identify white eye in pictures taken up to 1.3 years before the child was diagnosed.”

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This non-intrusive, ultra- convenient Artificial Intelligence enabled technology is pushing the boundaries of digital health diagnosis, and this is just one example. In addition to convenience, your data privacy is less at risk as the app analyses the photos right on your device, reducing latency and increasing privacy by not uploading to a server. This type of technology, when developed further, could be very useful to detect a variety of health issues.

In fact, there are other apps that are already utilizing AI to address a host of mental and physical health concerns. Some of these health applications range from AI chat bots programmed to treat mental health all the way to AI-enabled apps that can help women track and predict fertility. Investors are betting big on these AI-enabled health apps with millions in funding being pumped into these companies of the future.

The future of AI-enabled apps is certainly bright. Wearable tech, like FitBit or Apple Watch, when equipped with built-in Artificial Intelligence, could one day utilize personal health data to identify diseases such as cancer in the very early stages. Apple Watch is already able to use AI to identify irregular heart beats known as paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (Afib) with 97% accuracy.

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With the continuous rise of healthcare costs, for individuals and the country as a whole, consumers are looking towards AI for more affordable self-diagnostics. This is evident in more than AI health apps, but also in many at home health kits such as, EverlyWell and QuestDirect, stay tuned for our Data Privacy Series article on at home diagnostics coming soon.

Artificial Intelligence is improving the healthcare space at rapid speed and the technology is only getting better. So the question that must be posed is:

Could AI be the key to solving the $760 billion healthcare crisis?

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