AI in Healthcare August 31, 2023
Biomedical researchers have been looking to expand the uses of DNA sequencing ever since the human genome project finished its initial mapping mission. That was in 2003.
Twenty years and many refinements later, AI is accelerating genomic medicine’s advance into the promised land of personalized, predictive and preventive care.
Firoz Ahmad, PhD, lays out the contours of the current landscape in an article published by The Economic Times’s Healthworld.com. Ahmad’s day job is running the clinical genomics operation at Unipath Specialty Laboratory, a pathology services concern in India. Here are four highlights of his thinking on AI in genomics and healthcare.
1. AI can speed analysis of data gleaned from genome sequencing. Ahmad points out that such analysis absent an...