Pranavsingh Dhunnoo

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines practically every day. Some praise its ability to provide new medical insights, while others point to concerning privacy risks with the technology in healthcare. The headlines are polarising, to say the least. While some of AI’s potential has been overhyped for marketing purposes, its importance in healthcare remains undeniable.

In the current age of artificial intelligence (AI), physicians are able to rely on the technology for a myriad of purposes. From triaging patients to assistance with radiological scans, they can turn to AI tools to assist them in their healthcare-related tasks. However, by offloading cognitive tasks to automated systems, a new concern has arisen: are doctors losing their clinical skills due to AI?

In healthcare, blood tests are routine procedures that involve taking a patient’s blood and assessing it. The need for blood tests varies, ranging from checking the blood glucose level to checking how well a condition is being managed via medications. Of course, in the digital health era, it is quasi-expected for blood testing to take a digital spin. Recent developments have indeed indicated that the concept of “digital blood testing” will soon be a reality.