This document outlines 8 ways that AI can help fight the coronavirus pandemic. It details how AI is being used to screen patients for infection, identify those at highest risk, detect COVID-19 from other respiratory illnesses using chest scans, predict which patients may decline, track hospital resources and discharged patients, screen for high temperatures, and analyze medical images and data to help develop new treatments.

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8 Advantages of AI to ght coronavirus
venkat k
Apr 20 · 2 min read
Here are eight ways where clinics can use AI to fight COVID-19, according to statistics
1. Examining the people who may get infected:
Cleveland Clinic has developed its chatbot that is intended to screen patients before
their appointment to decide if they may have been affected.
2. Identify high-risk patients for doctors to reach out to:
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Algorithms can be adopted based on patient data to proactively identification patients at
the highest risk of getting COVID-19.
3. Identify COVID-19 and separate from other respiratory diseases:
Because COVID-19 has symptoms related to other respiratory diseases, AI models can be
developed to recognize COVID-19 based on chest scans.
4. Predict which COVID-19 patients will decline:
Scientists at New York University, Columbia University and two hospitals in Wenzhou,
China, built an algorithm that identifies if victims will develop acute respiratory distress
syndrome. Other AI models are developed to identify patients who will need to be
shifted to the intensive care.
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5. Track hospital beds and supplies:
Aware of supply shortages, AI can be a great medium to manage when a hospital will run
out of beds, ventilators, and other sources.
6. Tracking victims outside the hospital:
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Pittsburgh-based UPMC are working with the
producer of a digital stethoscope and mobile EKG technology. When patients are
discharged to home, the technology can signal dangerous heart rhythm irregularities
and COVID-19 symptoms.
7. Detecting high temperatures and prevent sick people from going into public
spaces:
Temperature devices that are powered by AI can be utilized to remotely detect patients
with illnesses. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital is using thermal-screening face cameras to
identify fevers, sweating, and stain.
8. Standard responses to innovative treatment:

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An AI model could be prepared to analyze lung scans of victims filed in different COVID-
19 clinical trials.
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