Artificial Intelligence in fight against COVID 19

Ms. V.Vidhya, Asst Professor, Department of MBA

The Pandemic Covid 19 has resulted in high demand of digital services for healthcare. To combat the crisis, we need to first know who has the disease, who is likely to have the disease, and what resources we need to fight against it. AI is one of the helpful applications for this current crisis. AI will help us to reach the goal of social distancing, quarantine, facial recognition and chat box. Using AI tools can help people to assess the risk and figure out if they need to be tested.

AI powered digital triage and virtual assistance is important now in the pandemic situation. Right now, walk in directly to the hospitals are not allowed. They need prior appointments before stepping inside the hospital. In many hospitals now they have implemented a self-kiosk which measures the temperature of the people stepping inside the hospital, asking certain basic questions to the person and transform the data to the concern physician. The physician sees the patient or person through his computer system and advices the treatment. Even some hospital has deployed printer options to take a print of the medical advice given by the physician.

In order to support the initiatives taken by the Government to combat the pandemic recently Hindustan Institute of Technology of Science has developed a AI tool called SEVILI, meaning care taker by Centre for Automation and Robotics. Sevili is designed to navigate to the isolation ward to deliver food, Medication and other necessities. It helps in connecting the medical frontline with quarantined patient through Video/Audio remotely.

Automated finger print technology has gained its importance in the new era before the pandemic. The work staff attendance, identity verification in government offices, as well as entry restrictions in various areas were the application of the biometric technology. Now due to this pandemic situation the fingerprint technology has become not only redundant but also had become potential risk carrier of infectious disease. An alteration to this technology facial recognitions technology has emerged which detects the faces within milliseconds when embedded into the system. New version of facial technology is facial recognition and temperature sensing technology. This new AI helps to detect the facial biometric and senses the temperature of the person who requires authentication.

While the world continues to fight against COVID 19 it also fights with the economic drop-down. Meanwhile Healthcare has shifted its goal towards Healthcare with the help of AI technology which has paved way for many new innovators to innovate new technologies to combat with pandemic situation in the upcoming years. A quote says “A light end of this tunnel shines brighter” creating much needed hope in this intense situation. As a new era we can expect to emerge AI supporting Healthcare.