Similarly, the International Committee of the Red Cross has developed dashboards using AI to capture large volumes of data to support its wide-ranging humanitarian work. As a consequence, better disease detection and timely treatments can bring down mortality rates and increase life expectancy rates with time. In the Indian context, there has been a significant increase in life expectancy over the years. Interestingly, of several factors impacting life expectancy, independent research shows that the most statistically significant indicator of life expectancy is access to sanitation. Instead of working in silos, if AI and humans join hands, the disease detection accuracy will improve.

Source: Mint June 12, 2019 18:33 UTC