In the movie Ex Machina (2014), a technologist creates a robot that is so lifelike and self-aware that she can pass for human. When her inventor tasks a young programmer with testing the limits of her capabilities, she surprises both men with her capacity for creativity and deception.
While this makes for an entertaining storyline, the reality is that we’re still a long way from seeing robots of any real sophistication when it comes to true artificial intelligence (AI). Articles in newspapers and on media sites would have you think otherwise, often positioning robots, machine learning systems, and even algorithms as different types of AI.
However, while these kinds of systems are developed while working on AI research and development, they don’t display any real intelligence.
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Automation has become an integral part of daily life and a necessity for carrying out different processes across various industries including healthcare. Automation acts as the silver bullet for health care providers, who often face seemingly inconsistent demands with regard to cost reductions, efficient service to patients, and improved quality of care.
It’s important for healthcare providers to ensure that their services run smoothly and that they aren’t compromising the patient experience to achieve it, and one way to ensure that is to automate daily processes such as administering non-intravenous medications, data collection, reading radiological scans, and more such complex activities.
Automation would save time by carrying out repetitive tasks, reduce labor costs, increase precision and reduce errors—making it possible to acquire real-time data thereby enabling to provide improved diagnosis and allowing healthcare professionals to focus on other core processes.
For instance, appointment reminder systems like JustReminIt and TeleVox automate the process of reminding patients about their appointments. Instead of calling each patient, these systems automatically remind people of their upcoming schedules or remind them of their missed ones; through customized messages
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