If you're somebody who's interested in health, you may have noticed a trend recently. People are becoming more and more obsessed with the ways that AI can improve their health and well-being. There's no doubt that it's a transformative technology, but the extent to which it's able to improve lifestyle is tremendous, and many people are only just scratching the surface.
It eliminates the friction of traditional care
Once you start using AI for healthcare services, you realise just how full of friction traditional care options are. Typically, the standard internet health search meant typing symptoms into Google and then worrying about having cancer. The alternative was to book an appointment, wait a week, and then go and see a doctor, involving all of the travel and other issues involved.
With AI, you get 24/7 instant answers that are based on logic and reason. You're not just reading an article designed to act as a safe backstop for people who might have serious health conditions. There's also the fact that there are zero entry costs. Traditional medicine has high financial barriers (co-pays and deductibles), but when you go to an AI chatbot, it's essentially free unless you've reached your message limit for the day, in which case you just wait a couple of hours.
Finally, there's less risk of becoming a dismissed patient. Many physicians turn patients away because they think they're making up conditions or that they're just the effects of their mental habits. AI chatbots have infinite patience and can continue talking to you indefinitely about a condition, allowing you to explore every possible avenue and get real answers.
It improves existing devices
Another benefit of AI in the healthcare sector is the fact that it improves existing devices. For example, think about how much better AI hearing aids are compared to their conventional counterparts. Traditionally, you had to spend hours calibrating your hearing aids, or you had to get an audiologist to do it for you at high cost. With artificial intelligence on board, all of that calibration happens automatically in the background, and you don't have to worry about it.
The same is true of things like fall alarms and fitness trackers. All of this information can now be correctly categorised by artificially intelligent systems requiring far less human input.
It's enabling high-tech longevity and biohacking
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of artificial intelligence is that it's allowing people to engage in high-tech longevity and biohacking practices. This was never possible before, even with data-driven wellness trends, because it was almost impossible for the average person to gain meaningful insights from all of the information that sensors were collecting on them.
Nowadays, high-profile biohackers are using data sets from blood work, sleep metrics, and microbiome changes to optimise their routines. They're essentially being provided with a curated itinerary based on real-time information their bodies are producing.
Ultimately, AI isn't going anywhere. It's going to continue to transform the healthcare space and enable more people to access high-quality services at low cost.
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