#artificial Intelligence

The World Health Organization,
. . . has estimated that there is a global shortfall of approximately
. . . 4.3 million doctors and nurses,
. . . with poorer countries disproportionally impacted.

In the U.S.A., these shortages are less acute;
. . . instead, the country struggles with:
. . . . . . ever-increasing heath care costs,
. . . . . . which limits on the time a patient is able to spend with a doctor.

One study estimated,
. . . that U.S. doctors spend on average just
. . . 13 to 16 minutes with each patient.

Around the globe,
. . . artificial intelligence technologies in medical care,
. . . are beginning to demonstrate their potential to,
. . . . . . Speed diagnosis,
. . . . . . Cut Costs, and
. . . . . . improve the Quality of patient care, and
. . . . . . can also provide vital insights.
. . . . . . in geographic areas where doctors,
. . . . . . particularly specialists,
. . . . . . are few and far between.
Which, as the World Health Organization data reflects,
. . . is practically everywhere.

Time: Physicians spent
. . . . . . 27% seeing patients,
. . . . . . 49.2% of their time doing paperwork, and
. . . . . . Electric Health Record (EHR) system.
Even when the doctors were in the examination room with patients,
. . . they were spending only
. . . 52.9% of the time talking to, or examining the patients, and
. . . 37.0% doing […] paperwork.

1-30-2017 Source: #Artificial Intelligence