Doctors Vs AI enabled smartphones.

• Invention of smartphones has changed our lives. It's like our personal brand / an official representative of who we really are. They carry enough information about us, for anyone to know.
• From a grocery list to what you watch, shop and every smallest details about you and your life is easily seen via smartphones.
• We do know of all the bad habits too, like increased screen exposure, attention deficiency, mindless scrolling have damned upon us.
• Instead can we use the same smartphones to make ourselves healthy? can smartphones based therapeutics change our lifestyle? lets explore few possibilities to be achieved.
• When you visit a doctor , he basically examines you via following four steps and diagnose your condition .
• What are the possibilities where AI enabled smartphones can help simplify clinical examinations and alert you of any health problems without you having to visit a doctor?
• In medicine clinical examinations consist four steps:

1.The inspection: where doctor uses their visual senses to screen your body for normal shape, color, and consistency. It is said you are a great physician if you have a keen clinical eye and diagnose a disease at this stage itself.

2.Palpation: This involves the physician using their hands to examine you. Tactile sensation comes to play here.

3.Percusion: when same physician taps around your body with their fingers for percussion to evaluate hollowness/ tenderness/ sound echo. This practice helps in understanding any abnormal fluid or mass content in tissues.

4.Auscultation: Here a doctor uses a stethoscope to examine the sounds of heart, abdomen, lungs etc. examining sounds help your physician to diagnose any abnormalities if present.

In the above four steps understood, lets explore which of them is technically feasible via AI enabled smartphone:

• To conclude when a number of contactless medical services can be achieved via AI based smartphones, yet replacing the human touch and connection with tactile ability is a long way to achieve.
• With digital medicine can we change reactive care towards preventive care, help improve patient flow, safety, quality of care and a medical professionals time?
• Lets not forget! We are now building a future of predictive, preventive and personalized medicine.

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