With the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, humanity had to quickly adapt to new challenges that would not have been possible to cope without digital innovations in the field of medicine. In addition, technologies based on the use of artificial intelligence have found their development. This was announced on December 14 by the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko at the virtual summit QS Subject Focus Summit Medicine 2021.
“The situation required the prompt construction of completely new, non-standard and rapidly adapting technologies of medical care to changing situations. […] The level of penetration of information technologies into the healthcare organization, achieved before the pandemic, made it possible to create a digital system in the shortest possible time, ”he said.
According to the head of the Ministry of Health, we are talking about several innovations. First of all, it is a unified register of COVID-19 cases, which provided personalized management of each patient at all stages. Thanks to the register, all data is accumulated in a single digital circuit and is available in real time.
In addition, the accumulation of big data made it possible to quickly create a number of digital services using artificial intelligence technology, ranging from computer vision for describing images to a medical decision support system that has already been registered in Russia, the minister said.
So, in 2020, the first product based on artificial intelligence was registered in the country, in August 2021 there were already seven of them, today – 12.
“We are picking up the pace. I am convinced that in the near future we will be able to use these technologies to improve on an ongoing basis the protocols for the provision of medical care, digital clinical guidelines, relying on the analysis and processing of big data – real world data, ”concluded the head of the Ministry of Health.
Earlier, in October, the press service of the platform of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) told Izvestia that artificial intelligence was taught to detect a stroke by CT in a few minutes. The platform for support of medical decision-making “Celsus” looks for foci of hemorrhage and within a few minutes gives the result, helping doctors to quickly make a decision about emergency care, experts said.
Source: IZ
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