LEARN MORE ABOUT MACHINE LEARNING

Most medical practices are attempting to offload many tasks using machine learning (A.I. ) These are software tools that 'learn' using algorithms.

The software ' learns ' from each encounter, building its knowledge base, much like human practitioners.  Prior to being used it must be 'trained' (not unlike practitioners) A good source for the clinician is. Caption Health

Let's start with a brief video about using A.I. for COVID 19

Artificial intelligence is being applied to evaluating cardiac ultrasound,, pulmonary scans, and coordinating care for ICU patients.  This assisted in caring for over 50 patients in the Weil. Cornell ICU. This allowed novice caregivers with little or no experience to care for ER and ICU patients with COVID 19. It also emphasized the utility of fewer views to make a diagnosis using AI trained for ultrasound evaluation.

Other clinical settings for the use of U/S assisted SAI to include preoperative evaluations by anesthesiologists, who are otherwise novice or even incompetent in reading cardiac ultrasound.

POCUS in the Community Hospital

Leveraging the Capabilities of AI in a Neurocritical Care Unit

POCUS in the era of Value-Based Care in an Outpatient setting using Caption by a novice ultrasound fellow.

In summary, the use of POCUS allows for better value-based care delivering more care for the same or fewer dollars, efficiency and providing a uniform standard of care in the emergency department, critical care unit, preoperative anesthesia evaluation, remote clinical settings, and when fully trained ultrasound technicians or radiologists are not available.