2.95 CME

AI dalam Kesehatan Masyarakat

Pembicara: Dr. Umashankar

Profesor dan Direktur Pelaksana Arogyati Private Limited, Banglore

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Keterangan

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing public health by enhancing disease surveillance, predicting outbreaks, and optimizing resource allocation. By analyzing vast datasets, AI can identify patterns and provide insights for timely interventions, improving population health outcomes. It aids in personalized healthcare by tailoring prevention strategies and treatments to individual needs. AI-driven tools, like chatbots and health apps, improve accessibility to health information, empowering communities. Additionally, AI supports research by accelerating data analysis in epidemiology and public health studies. However, ethical considerations and data privacy remain crucial challenges to address in leveraging AI for public health.

Ringkasan

  • The presentation provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing its increasing presence in daily life and its relevance to public health. It defines AI as technology enabling computers to simulate human learning, problem-solving, decision-making, and creativity. The speaker outlines the layers of AI, including machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, explaining how each works and their potential applications.
  • AI is described not as a new invention but as a developing field spanning over 70 years, and the presentation traces AI's historical milestones, from early conceptualizations to current applications in medicine and healthcare. Various types of AI are classified based on capabilities (narrow, general, strong) and functionalities (reactive machine, limited memory, theory of mind, self-aware), providing clarity on their respective functionalities.
  • AI offers numerous benefits in public health, including automation, reduced human error, accelerated research and development, continuous availability, and fast, accurate data analysis. These advantages can be applied to predict outbreaks, diagnose diseases, deliver personalized medicine, provide health education, and facilitate policymaking. Examples were given on Telemedicine, Early Warning systems and the Use of Drones.
  • Despite the benefits, there are challenges to AI implementation in public health, especially data privacy and security, ethical concerns, algorithmic bias, and high implementation costs. Overcoming these challenges requires data governance, skill development, strategic collaborations, and addressing equity and bias concerns. The future of AI in public health involves leveraging IoT devices, wearable health monitoring, and cross-sector collaborations to improve public health management and intervention.

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