RIYADH: Lives in developing countries could be extended by nine years if 5 percent more GDP is invested in health care systems, according to a new global health care study published by the Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII-I).
The not-for-profit global foundation behind the Kingdom’s annual Future Investment Initiative conference also revealed that integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics into existing health care systems could increase the efficiency of health care investments by up to 20 percent.
FII Institute CEO Richard Attias called the study “dramatic in its findings,” and said that if governments made wise investment decisions they could increase life expectancy and make health services work better for people in every part of the planet.
AI shows considerable promise for preventing drug-resistant outbreaks , the report said. Databases containing the genomes from different strains of the pathogen are growing, along with information about whether they were susceptible to antibiotics, the report said. Using this data, AI can allow scientists to identify the DNA sequences that indicate resistance. This can speed up the treatment of diseases like TB.
AI can also help alert the world to the threat of a disease outbreak, according to the report. We were first made aware of Covid-19 in December 2019 by BlueDot, a company in Toronto. It used an algorithm to trawl notifications, disease networks, global news stories and even airline ticketing information to accurately predict how the outbreak would spread.
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