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The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare

Presented from India by Dr. Viduthalai Virumbi Balagurusamy

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Case Description

AI and machine learning are transforming healthcare by improving diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. These technologies analyze vast amounts of medical data to detect patterns, enabling early disease diagnosis, such as cancer or heart conditions. Predictive analytics helps identify at-risk...

Case Summary

AI is crucial in healthcare for automating repetitive tasks like identifying disease clusters across vast geographical regions and multiple administrative levels. This includes analyzing data from districts, sub-districts, villages, and urban areas, a task too large for manual processing, thereby allowing for efficient diagnosis at scale. AI can also help uncover unknown factors influencing health, such as climate and environmental conditions, by analyzing existing datasets to identify patterns and connections between exposures, symptoms, and diseases.

Speaker Profile

Dr. Viduthalai Virumbi Balagurusamy

Founder Director, Honeybee Population Healthcare Foundation, Chennai

Dr Viduthalai had done his Master of Public Health from ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology. Worked as Scientist D, Program Coordinator of GHSA project - Model district for public health preparedness surveillance and response, Tiruvallur district, South India during 2016-18. He participated in establishing a syndromic surveillance system during mass gatherings, disease outbreaks/pandemics and disasters. Presently working on population-scale tech-driven governance & healthcare projects.

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