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Five Functions of
Artificial Intelligence
ACCORDING TO
PROFES SOR LORD AR A DAR Z I

Detection
Automated assessment
of digital media
(e.g. Twitter) to predict
and detect pandemic

Of these applications, he details five: detection, assessment,
treatment, escalation and recovery. Professor Lord Darzi
breaks down below how each of these processes can assist
against COVID-19.
Despite AI's versatility, the technology is still developing, and
there are pitfalls standing in the way of its potential.

Assessment
Automated disease
diagnostics (e.g.
identifying viral illness
on CT scans or from
patient reporting apps)

Treatment
AI-based drug and vaccine
discovery, screening molecular
libraries, data linkages
between medicinal data-bases,
identifying immune phenotypes
for vaccine generation

Escalation
AI-based contact
tracking and tracing,
real-time prediction of
R0 and prediction
of viral spread

One of these obstacles, Professor Lord Darzi writes, is the
isolation of valuable data sets. "There remain many data silos
that prevent the sharing and integration of data," he explains.
"These data warehouses range from private sources (such
as those in Big Pharma), those in academic institutions and
those from governments."
To address this barrier, Professor Lord Darzi contends
that "there needs to be more transparent data sharing and
analysis under the protection of appropriate regulatory
processes and digital data protection rules."
The immediate effects of COVID-19 on healthcare systems
mean the people working for the public need to fight the
virus using reliable and proven solutions. Patty Wickson is
the executive director, innovation, evidence and impact (IEI)
with Alberta Health Services (AHS). Wickson says that before
the pandemic, her team was actively working in the AI space.

"There's only so much we can handle
when we're in the pandemic," Wickson
says, "so it's taking a step back and
saying, 'how can we be strategic using
AI and machine learning to support the
pandemic needs?'"

Recovery
Population-level
disease vigilance from
national databases,
AI-based tool to
support new treatment
pathways (e.g. through
telemedicine)

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