Artificial Intelligence-based Clinical Decision Support for COVID-19 -- Where Art Thou?
This is an incremental perspective piece for healthcare professionals and AI researchers, highlighting gaps in deploying AI tools during pandemics.
The paper addresses the limited application of AI-based clinical decision support systems for COVID-19, identifying opportunities and challenges for improving AI readiness in rapidly emergent healthcare crises.
The COVID-19 crisis has brought about new clinical questions, new workflows, and accelerated distributed healthcare needs. While artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision support seemed to have matured, the application of AI-based tools for COVID-19 has been limited to date. In this perspective piece, we identify opportunities and requirements for AI-based clinical decision support systems and highlight challenges that impact "AI readiness" for rapidly emergent healthcare challenges.