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Enterprising Artificial Intelligence: Aiding Patients as Well as the Healers

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Biotechnology Products in Everyday Life

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Artificial intelligence is ‘the’ word that best describes the future of health sector. With the advent of the age of Internet of things (IOT), almost every aspect of life has changed. Biotechnology also does not remain untouched with these changes. Today, while there are robots to generate and analyze the data, there are also devices with ability to interpret those results. As the biotechnologists today extend their learning into making software for medical and clinical data mining, there are also computer and electrical engineers who seek their careers in making smart and intelligent devices which aid to medical, pharmaceutical, or clinical requirements. In the last two decades, especially the last 7–9 years, the market has witnessed many such devices and there is a whole community of start-ups mushroomed in the recent past, dedicated to the making of these devices. This review revisits some of the latest, popular, and enterprising technologies in biotech space, which integrate artificial intelligence with medical science. This chapter also emphasizes on the growing culture of start-ups around the globe dedicated to manufacturing of devices and software that assist the hospital staff with medical data collection, maintenance, and analysis, while most of them foster the field of diagnostics. These several categories of devices have not yet replaced human intelligence completely, though they have speeded up the process and ensured more efficacy level than simple, mechanical, humanized efforts.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my mentor Dr. A. K. Saxena and Dr. Ram Vishwakarma for their visionary sensibilities in the field of science. Also, I would like to acknowledge my BIRAC experience, as they funded a start-up Nurture Earth R&D Pvt. Ltd, where I worked for 2 years. This exposure was the mind-set changer, which molded the researcher inside me into an entrepreneur.

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Saxena, A. (2019). Enterprising Artificial Intelligence: Aiding Patients as Well as the Healers. In: Khoobchandani, M., Saxena, A. (eds) Biotechnology Products in Everyday Life. EcoProduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92399-4_4

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