Ai In Healthcare – India Needs To Prioritise Maternal And Child Health

AI in maternal and child health will have far reaching benefits for individuals and communities across the world. This will go a long way in attaining one of the most important sustainable development goals. An insight by Dr Arvind Kasaragod, Director – Medical Services, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals.

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The honourable interim finance minister PiyushGoyal has made an allocation in the recently announced interim budget for a National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) and a national AI portal. This will have far-reaching implications in many fields and the biggest impact will be if AI is used effectively in healthcare. In fact, the buzz words in healthcare recently are, machine learning (ML) and AI. There has already been significant interest in AI in healthcare in India and around the world. In my opinion, we have not even scratched the surface and should use the initiative shown by the finance minister to make the best use of it in healthcare. The use of AI in maternal and child health holds a lot of promise and is required most among all medical specialties.