LESSON H5P - Can AI rescue us from spreading disease? What can IoT offer us?

As recently discussed in the literature doctors will most likely not be replaced by artificial intelligence: smart medical technologies exist as such as support to the physician in order to improve patient management. As recent studies have indicated , however, comparisons frequently occur between artificial intelligence solutions and physicians, as if the two counterparts were in competition. Future studies should focus on the comparison between physicians using artificial intelligence solutions with physicians without the aid of such applications, and extend those comparisons to translational clinical trials; only then will artificial intelligence be accepted as complementary to physicians. Healthcare professionals stand nowadays in a privileged position, to be able to welcome the digital evolution and be the main drivers of change, although a major revision of medical education is needed to provide future leaders with the competences to do so.