Preparing for the Ai Era Under the Digital Health Framework

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) for health has shown great potential to improve healthcare efficiency, especially artificial intelligence (AI). To better understand the influence of ICT technology on health, a framework of the digital health industry has been proposed in this paper. Factors from the health industry and the ICT part are extracted to study the interaction between two groups of component factors. Health factors include service and management; and ICT factors include sensors, networks, data resources, platforms, applications and solutions. The interaction between ICT and health can be traced through the development history, from the stage of institutional informationization to regional informationization, and finally to service intelligentization. Following such a developmental roadmap, AI was chosen as one of the most powerful technologies to study the penetration effect and key development trends from the perspectives of data, computing power and algorithms. The health industry will be much improved or redefined in the coming AI era. To better understand the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of AI for health, exogenous factors are discussed at the end of the paper; preparations on collaboration mechanism; standardization and regulation have been proposed for the sustainable development of digital health in the AI era.

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