Applications, Scope, and Challenges for AI in healthcare

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that has been creating numerous breakthroughs across a variety of fields such as Gaming, Mathematics, Education, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, healthcare, and so on. The field being dealt with in this article is healthcare which is still an emerging and if not, the most challenging one. This paper goes through a few breakthroughs of AI in healthcare from an industry and research perspective. Some of the ways how AI is being used across various healthcare domains are explained. The discussion goes on by briefing the future scope of AI and how it can make life simpler and more efficient for the stakeholders. Finally, it wraps up by uncovering ways in which AI for healthcare can still be a challenge to software companies and medical practitioners alike by addressing a few major challenges.