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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help in Reducing Chronic Pain
Artificial intelligence can help the patients suffering from chronic pain by offering them efficient healthcare professionals who can treat such disease.
The industrial evolution brought unparalleled advances in medicine with it. Today, antibiotics and medications are commonly recognized and used, and surgical processes are safer and more reliable than ever. Readily accessible databases hold the detailed health records of patients and direct doctors as they choose the most viable treatment choices.
The tech-based development of medicine has been unstable because some of the specialties have undergone immense changes, others like the musculoskeletal domain are lagging behind the curve. It is a disadvantage for millions of patients.
In medical schools, musculoskeletal education is mostly glossed over. Therefore, most of the physicians lack the skills and expertise needed to treat chronic pain efficiently, without any fault of their own.
It seems that the end of the epidemic of chronic pain and the overwhelming lack of access to high-quality care for patients are within reach due to artificial intelligence (AI). In the next few years, it will become easier for patients to locate physicians and medical providers who have a track record of helping people because AI can optimize how chronic pain is handled.
How AI can relieve chronic pain
Artificial intelligence technology can guide patients who suffer from choric pain towards the best treatment for their long-lasting health. To start the procedure, AI will study the medical history, physical requirements, and primary health factors of the patients. They will cross-check the data with an updated directory of every neighboring chronic-pain specialists and musculoskeletal professionals after gaining the information.
Patients will also have the opportunity to select their doctor whose skills can improve their conditions. Furthermore, AI will filter the neighboring care providers based on the patients' requirements and preferences, which also includes affordability, distance, and effectiveness in treating chronic pain.
Artificial intelligence can provide the patients who suffer from chronic pain and the ones who will, due to future accidents with dependable care, take charge of their health, feel the best, and beat one of the most neglected illnesses.
Jennifer Ledbetter, RN, MSN, Vice President of Operations, Medical City Heart Hospital and Medical City Spine Hospital, part of Medical City Healthcare | North Texas Division of HCA Healthcare