The Growing Role of AI in the Post-Vaccine World
A common theme that surrounds the pandemic and post-vaccine world is the idea of adaptability. Businesses, schools, and families changed rapidly for the sake of everyone’s health and safety. This meant avoiding contact and shifting into virtual environments — an option that’s only possible in the 21st century. As we begin to think about adapting once again, many people are wondering what we will keep and what we’ll leave behind.
The role of technology, specifically related to artificial intelligence (AI), has changed immensely in the post-vaccinated world. From hiring to staffing to data to analytics and even new inventions, AI is quickly becoming the new essential for the professional and medical world.
AI for Data and Analysis in Health Care
At the beginning of the pandemic, one of the major issues hospitals faced was having enough ventilators for all patients. The numbers added up too quickly for doctors, nurses, and hospital staff to calculate the supplies necessary for every person. However, some facilities had the AI technology to collect the data and create predictions as to who would need a ventilator with 84% accuracy.
At the height of the COVID pandemic, the healthcare field made strides in AI inventions that accurately reported information and gave doctors the ability to help those who needed it most. This same type of analytic tracking predicts future upticks in outbreaks, keeping more people safe and healthy.
This technology gives hospitals worldwide invaluable information and data to make life-saving decisions. For this reason, AI will continue to be at the forefront of the health care field in the post-vaccinated world.
AI for Hiring and Staffing
Artificial Intelligence enhances nearly every aspect of workforce management. The cost and quality of many professional facilities can benefit from the right technology. AI can handle planning, analysis, organizational compliance, and human capital management.
Human resource departments use special software to sift through and highlight the most qualified applicants. Keyword algorithms eliminate the unconscious bias associated with choosing more diverse employees. Adding this type of software to hiring systems gives everyone an equal chance based on their experience and education.
AI workforce management systems are also used for scheduling work hours for staff, typically in health care, senior living facilities, and child care. This technology tracks open spots and schedules staff without incurring overtime — it’ll even notify employees about their upcoming shifts. It also considers any organizational policies, like union rules, to avoid any oversights. The installation of operational AI platforms in health care could help workflow increase by 10%-15% over the next two to three years.
Employees can also use the technology to track their attendance and benefits. With real-time scheduling and attendance data, AI benefits busy HR and operational teams alike.
AI Inventions for the Post-Vaccine World
Along with the critical data AI can collect and distribute to doctors, the technology’s inventions can also support the medical field in nonemergency-related ways. For example, we now have voice recognition software that acknowledges a vocabulary of 300,000 words and 90 medical specialties.
This AI software will listen to a patient speaking to a doctor, decipher the words and diction being used, and accurately create a report. In the past, this information would have been manually written by doctors themselves. Now, the software can write it within four hours. After the process of writing, analyzing, and saving to the electronic health records (EHR), the report is sent to the physician for a final signature. This procedure saves practitioners time in their everyday routine while precisely annotating patients’ visits.
Besides listening to vocabulary, this AI technology is also being used to hear internal sounds in the body. It dictates irregular heart rates and checks for murmurs that otherwise may go undetected. AI inventions are the way of the future for the health care field as we navigate new ways to create better, more accurate systems.
The Future of AI Technology in the Post-Vaccine World
The role of AI is rapidly growing in the post-vaccinated world. It’s become a staple for the hiring and scheduling processes in hospitals and other care facilities — and it’s changed the way doctors view data analytics and appointments with patients. This tech will help people adapt to today’s new normal and better predict and prepare for the future.
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