What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics?
The COVID-19 pandemic put significant strain on societies and their resources, with the healthcare system and workers being particularly affected. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the unique possibility of improving the response to a pandemic as it emerges and evolves. Here, we utilize the WHO fr...
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| author | Krzysztof Laudanski Gregory Shea Matthew DiMeglio Mariana Restrepo Cassie Solomon |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic put significant strain on societies and their resources, with the healthcare system and workers being particularly affected. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the unique possibility of improving the response to a pandemic as it emerges and evolves. Here, we utilize the WHO framework of a pandemic evolution to analyze the various AI applications. Specifically, we analyzed AI from the perspective of all five domains of the WHO pandemic response. To effectively review the current scattered literature, we organized a sample of relevant literature from various professional and popular resources. The article concludes with a consideration of AI’s weaknesses as key factors affecting AI in future pandemic preparedness and response. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41061968a58c4701b37aab45fe4145dd2023-11-20T23:08:51ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322020-12-018452710.3390/healthcare8040527What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics?Krzysztof Laudanski0Gregory Shea1Matthew DiMeglio2Mariana Restrepo3Cassie Solomon4Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USALeonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USADepartment of Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USADepartment of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAThe New Group Organizational Consulting Inc., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAThe COVID-19 pandemic put significant strain on societies and their resources, with the healthcare system and workers being particularly affected. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the unique possibility of improving the response to a pandemic as it emerges and evolves. Here, we utilize the WHO framework of a pandemic evolution to analyze the various AI applications. Specifically, we analyzed AI from the perspective of all five domains of the WHO pandemic response. To effectively review the current scattered literature, we organized a sample of relevant literature from various professional and popular resources. The article concludes with a consideration of AI’s weaknesses as key factors affecting AI in future pandemic preparedness and response.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/4/527pandemicCOVID-19artificial intelligencedemand constraintsinnovation |
| spellingShingle | Krzysztof Laudanski Gregory Shea Matthew DiMeglio Mariana Restrepo Cassie Solomon What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics? Healthcare pandemic COVID-19 artificial intelligence demand constraints innovation |
| title | What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics? |
| title_full | What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics? |
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| title_short | What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics? |
| title_sort | what can covid 19 teach us about using ai in pandemics |
| topic | pandemic COVID-19 artificial intelligence demand constraints innovation |
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