Pursuing Connectivity in Cardio-Oncology Care-The Future of Telemedicine and Artificial Intelligence in Providing Equity and Access to Rural Communities

Healthcare Transformation: Artificial Intelligence Is the Dire Imperative of the Day

At present, healthcare systems around the world are confronted with unprecedented challenges caused by aging demographics, increasing chronic diseases, and resource challenges. In this scenario, artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a disruptive technology that can provide solutions to these complicated problems. This review article outlines the vital role played by AI in altering the health landscape. The constant demand for effective and accessible healthcare demands the use of new solutions. AI can be described as an important imperative, enabling advancements in many areas of the delivery of healthcare. This review article explores the possibilities of use of AI to aid in the field of healthcare assistants, diagnosing, disease prediction, and personalized treatment and the discovery of drugs, telemedicine and remote monitoring of patients, robotic-assisted procedures imaging for pathology and radiology analysis, and the analysis of genomic data. By analyzing the existing research and cases, we explain how AI-driven technology can optimize processes in healthcare, improve diagnosis accuracy, improve the quality of treatment, and simplify administrative tasks. By highlighting the most successful AI applications and laying out possible future developments, the review article will provide insight for healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders in harnessing the power of AI to transform healthcare delivery and enhance the quality of care for patients.

Leveraging the Academic Artificial Intelligence Silecosystem to Advance the Community Oncology Enterprise

Over the last 75 years, artificial intelligence has evolved from a theoretical concept and novel paradigm describing the role that computers might play in our society to a tool with which we daily engage. In this review, we describe AI in terms of its constituent elements, the synthesis of which we refer to as the AI Silecosystem. Herein, we provide an historical perspective of the evolution of the AI Silecosystem, conceptualized and summarized as a Kuhnian paradigm. This manuscript focuses on the role that the AI Silecosystem plays in oncology and its emerging importance in the care of the community oncology patient. We observe that this important role arises out of a unique alliance between the academic oncology enterprise and community oncology practices. We provide evidence of this alliance by illustrating the practical establishment of the AI Silecosystem at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and its team utilization by community oncology providers.

Inequity in care delivery in cardio-oncology: dissecting disparities in underrepresented populations

It is well known that patients with cancer have a significantly higher cardiovascular mortality risk than the general population. Cardio-oncology has emerged to focus on these issues including risk reduction, detection, monitoring, and treatment of cardiovascular disease or complications in patients with cancer. The rapid advances in early detection and drug development in oncology, along with socioeconomic differences, racial inequities, lack of support, and barriers to accessing quality medical care, have created disparities in various marginalized populations. In this review, we will discuss the factors contributing to disparities in cardio-oncologic care in distinct populations, including Hispanic/Latinx, Black, Asian and Pacific Islander, indigenous populations, sex and gender minorities, and immigrants. Some factors that contribute to differences in outcomes in cardio-oncology include the prevalence of cancer screening rates, genetic cardiac/oncologic risk factors, cultural stressors, tobacco exposure rates, and physical inactivity. We will also discuss the barriers to cardio-oncologic care in these communities from the racial and socioeconomic context. Appropriate and timely cardiovascular and cancer care in minority groups is a critical component in addressing these disparities, and there need to be urgent efforts to address this widening gap.

Pros and cons of telemedicine: implications in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vitalness of telehealth in our medical world, where considering a restructuring of healthcare services has become paramount. Indeed, in the context of this still ongoing pandemic, medical institutions must strive to improve telehealth technologies and implement solid future research directions in this growing field - to be able to persevere in meeting the needs of the patients. As long as no conclusive evidence exists regarding the fields where telemedicine is most worthwhile, healthcare systems will always keep the dread of wasting resources on developing ineffective programs. We gathered that telemedicine has been attributed a considerable attention in managing cardiac/cardiovascular conditions; nevertheless, further studies with solid designs are still needed to confirm its validity/utility within these specialties.