A lot of us with smartphones today know how Google performs various functions based on voice command. It doesn’t require us to even slightly move our fingers. As technology advances on a daily basis and continues to make our life simpler, there’s another thing happening simultaneously. Human beings are now becoming extremely reliant on technology to do everything for them, thus not making use of their own abilities. The very same thing they used, to create and invent is now losing its prominence. And with this comes a sedentary lifestyle which in turn leads to diseases.
Skip to February 2018 and technology even has a solution for it. In a recent press conference, Google unveiled its plans to foray into the medical/healthcare field. Google’s subsidiary Verily has stated that “with the use of AI they can predict heart diseases and even a patient’s death”. The AI uses photographs of the back area of the eye called, the Retinal Fundus to predict whether or not the person may suffer from a heart disease. According to some researchers, doctors tend to spend more time in reading up on the history of a patient’s life with regard to the lifestyle, food, etc. compared to the time of the treatment period .With this move, Google aims to give doctors the ability to diagnose such conditions quickly and easily. It can also be considered as an advantage for the patient as they won’t need to be pricked by a needle.
This is indeed a big change for the healthcare industry, where the reigns of treating human beings are passed by another human being to a machine. As strange it may sound, it is considered a major advancement in saving lives without having to waste any time in diagnosis.
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