Challenges of Applying AI in Healthcare in India
Verda Nizam
Symbiosis Institute of Digital and Telecom Management, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Avinash Aslekar *
Symbiosis Institute of Digital and Telecom Management, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
With the advent of digitalization, upcoming technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being utilized by healthcare services to manage various healthcare services to mimic human cognitive functions. This technology is expected to bring about a massive change in healthcare. Patient management, clinical decision support, patient tracking, and health care services are the four main AI-enabled fields of the healthcare industry. The method carrying out the study was based on secondary research by the themes of the studies performed earlier using Artificial intelligence in healthcare sector, through observations, interviews and valid documentations from prominent databases, by means of challenges and its analysis and the last by the issues associated with the study and the target groups are the front line workers in healthcare sectors. The AI applications in health care have gathered much attention, but AI's adoption issues have not been significantly tended. There are several challenges of its implementation, such as resolving the unequal relationship between trained physicians and patients and increasing physicians' efficiency to be more effective in their work; providing AI-enabled healthcare equipment in rural communities; and educating physicians or doctors in handling it. AI technologies have the potential to enhance patient outcomes. Still, they may also pose significant risks in terms of inadequate patient risk assessment, medical error, and suggestions for treatment, privacy violations, and others.
Keywords: AI, challenges, healthcare, India, physicians, rural communities