How Artificial Intelligence is Affecting Healthcare

This research paper explores the effects of artificial intelligence on healthcare. It covers data collection and storage, design and implementation, experiment designing, and result analysis. The paper includes tables and charts to represent the data collected from major hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare centers. The research uses a hybrid methodology to collect both numerical and non-numerical data. The results show the percentage of organizations using and not using artificial intelligence in their operations.

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Introduction to research
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Professor’s Name
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Table of Contents
List of Figures........................................................................................................................3
List of Tables..........................................................................................................................4
1 Data collection and storage.................................................................................................5
1.1 Data sources.................................................................................................................5
1.2 Data collection.............................................................................................................5
1.3 Data storage..................................................................................................................6
2 Design and implementation.................................................................................................7
2.1 Data pre-processing......................................................................................................7
2.2 Feature selection or dimension reduction....................................................................9
2.3 Experiment designing.................................................................................................10
2.3.1 Detailed design steps...........................................................................................10
2.3.2 The results obtained............................................................................................11
2.4 Implementation..........................................................................................................12
2.4.1 The software and tools used in analysis..............................................................13
2.4.2 The actual analysis and tabulation of results.......................................................13
3 Result analysis...................................................................................................................19
3.1 Results estimation......................................................................................................20
3.2 Results summary........................................................................................................20
4 Outline of the research and result analysis........................................................................21
References............................................................................................................................23

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List of Figures
Figure 1: Data pre-processing..........................................................................................................8
Figure 2: A pie chart showing the percentage of hospitals using and those not using artificial
intelligence in their operations.......................................................................................................14
Figure 3: A pie chart showing the percentage of clinics using and those not using artificial
intelligence in their operations.......................................................................................................14
Figure 4: A pie chart showing the percentage of the other healthcare centers using and those not
using artificial intelligence in their operations..............................................................................15
Figure 5: A bar graph showing the numbers of the data sources...................................................16
Figure 6: A pie chart showing the percentage of hospitals supporting and those not supporting
artificial intelligence in their operations........................................................................................17
Figure 7: A pie chart showing the percentage of clinics supporting and those not supporting
artificial intelligence in their operations........................................................................................17
Figure 8: A pie chart showing the percentage of the other healthcare centers supporting and those
not supporting artificial intelligence in their operations................................................................18
Figure 9: A bar graph showing the organizations which support artificial intelligence in their
operations.......................................................................................................................................19

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List of Tables
Table 1: Data collection table..........................................................................................................6
Table 2: Data storage table..............................................................................................................7
Table 3: Feature selection and data reduction table.......................................................................10
Table 4: A table of questionnaire questions..................................................................................11
Table 5: A table showing the organizations used in data collection..............................................11
Table 6: A table showing the organizations which supported the use of artificial intelligence in
their operations..............................................................................................................................12
Table 7: A table showing the numbers and the percentages of the organizations using artificial
intelligence in their operations.......................................................................................................13
Table 8: A table showing the numbers and the percentages of the organizations supporting the
use of artificial intelligence in their operations.............................................................................16

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How artificial intelligence is affecting healthcare
1 Data collection and storage
Before we perform any experiment or research, it’s important for us to collect the data to
be used in the experiment or the research. In our case, we are interested in collecting the data
which can help us to understand how artificial intelligence is affecting the field of healthcare. For
our research to be successful, we must identify the best sources of data, collect the most
appropriate data, record it, store it appropriately, and use it as required to generate the desired
results of our research.
1.1 Data sources
The main aim of our paper is to study how artificial intelligence is affecting healthcare and
so the main data sources to be used will be major hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare centers
in our societies (Beam et al., 2018). From these medical centers, we’ll be able to see how
artificial intelligence is applied and how it is affecting the performance of the medical centers.
1.2 Data collection
After identifying the most appropriate data sources, the required data is collected and
recorded in the table shown below. The table shows the sources of the data, the type of the data,
the format of the data, the fee incurred, among other specifications of the data and the
requirements for the data collection.

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Table 1: Data collection table
Data
source
name
Source
organization
(major
hospitals,
clinics, and
the other
healthcare
organizations)
Data description Data file
format
Charge
fee
Target
data
source
Data 1 Major
hospitals
Application of artificial
intelligence in major
hospitals
txt Free Yes
Data 2 Clinics Application of artificial
intelligence in clinics
txt Free Yes
Data 3 Other
healthcare
centers
Application of artificial
intelligence in other
healthcare centers
txt Free Yes
1.3 Data storage
After collecting all the required data, another table is created to store the raw data collected
from the data sources. Storage of data is very important as it makes sure the data is safe and can
be used in the future when required (Lu et al., 2015). The data storage table is shown below:

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Table 2: Data storage table
Data source name Date of
collection
Saved file
location
Saved file
name
Saved file
format
Number
of records
Survey from major
hospitals
22/4/2018 //raw data/ Survey.txt1 txt 50
Survey from clinics 25/4/208 //raw data/ Survey.txt2 txt 80
Survey from other
healthcare centers
29/4/2018 //raw data/ Survey.txt3 txt 150
2 Design and implementation
After the collection and the storage of the data, the data needs to undergo data pre-
processing and feature selection or the dimension reduction before it can be analyzed and
implemented as required to obtain the desired results of the research.
2.1 Data pre-processing
Data pre-processing is any form of processing done on the raw data to prepare it to be fit to
be used in an experiment or research. Data pre-processing is a common practice in the data
mining process where it is done to transform the data into a format which will be easily and
effectively used by the users (Ramírez-Gallego et al., 2017, pp.39-57). Like in data mining, in
our case data preprocessing is done to transform the raw data into a more favorable data format
which will be easily understood and analyzed to obtain the desired results of our research.

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We have many processes involved in data pre-processing where some of the major
processes include data cleaning, data integration, data transformation, data reduction, data
discretization, among other processes (García, Luengo, and Herrera, 2016). Data pre-processing
can be represented diagrammatically by the figure shown below:
Figure 1: Data pre-processing
Data cleaning or data cleansing is the process of sorting or detecting and removing corrupt
and inaccurate records of data from the collected data set to make sure you’ll remain with only
the accurate and the necessary data which will be useful in the analysis (Cody, 2017).
Data integration is the process of combining the data from different sources to obtain one
set of data which will be valuable and relevant to be used in the analysis. In our case, the data

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from the major hospitals, the clinics, and other healthcare centers is combined to obtain one data
set which will be analyzed easily to understand how artificial intelligence affects the field of
healthcare (Cudré-Mauroux, 2017, pp.5-6).
Data transformation is the process of converting all the integrated data into the format
which is required during the analysis of the data (Heer, Hellerstein, and Kandel, 2015).
Data reduction is the process of transforming data into a correct, simpler, and well-
organized and well-ordered data which can be manipulated or analyzed with much ease to obtain
the desired results (Rehman et al., 2016, pp.917-928).
Data discretization is the technique of converting large and complex data sets into smaller,
finite, and simpler data sets which can be easily understood and analyzed with much ease to
obtain the desired results (Ramírez‐Gallego et al., 2016, pp.5-21).
In our case, the collected raw data about the effects of artificial intelligence on the
healthcare field undergo the whole process of data pre-processing to get the most suitable data
which will be used in the analysis.
2.2 Feature selection or dimension reduction
After data pre-processing, features selection or dimension reduction is done to select the
most appropriate features and do a further reduction to remove all the unnecessary data to make
sure we’ll be left with only the data to be used in the analysis (Hira and Gillies, 2015). A new
table shown below is prepared to record the data after feature selection and dimension reduction.

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Table 3: Feature selection and data reduction table
Date Data
source
name
Purpose
of pre-
processing
Method of pre-
processing
Original
data
records
Results
data
records
New data
file name
2/5/2018 Data 1 Avoid
duplicity
Data
reduction(cleaning
)
50 35 Survey.txt11
2/5/2018 Data 2 Feature
selection
Data integration 80 64 Survey.txt22
2/5/2018 Data 3 Filter the
data
Data reduction 150 127 Survey.txt33
2.3 Experiment designing
This section explains how the research was conducted to obtain the desired results of how
artificial intelligence is affecting healthcare.
2.3.1 Detailed design steps
To carry out our research successfully, we used hybrid methodology or the mixed research
methodology which made our research easy since we collected and analyzed both numerical and
non-numerical forms of data (Creswell and Clark, 2017). We used interviews and questionnaires
as the main methods of data collection to obtain our desired data from the major hospitals,

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clinics, and the other healthcare centers in our societies (Flick, 2017). A simplified table showing
some of the main questionnaire questions used in data collection is shown below:
Table 4: A table of questionnaire questions
Question 1 What’s the name of your organization?
Question 2 Do you use artificial intelligence in your medical operations?
Question 3 If yes, please give some of the major operations where you use artificial
intelligence in your organization
Question 4 What are the major benefits of artificial intelligence in your organization?
Question 5 What are the major challenges facing artificial intelligence in your
organization?
Question 6 In your own views, has artificial intelligence helped to improve the quality
of services offered in your organization and do you support the use of
artificial intelligence in your organization or it should be ended?
2.3.2 The results obtained
After visiting various major hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare centers where we
interviewed various healthcare personnel and gave various questionnaire forms with some
questions about the effects of artificial intelligence on their performance, we obtained the
following simplified results:

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Table 5: A table showing the organizations used in data collection
Data source name Total number of
organizations used
in data collection
Number of
organizations using
artificial intelligence
in their operations
Number of
organizations not
using artificial
intelligence in their
operations
Major hospitals 50 46 4
Clinics 80 67 13
Other healthcare
centers
150 112 38
Table 6: A table showing the organizations which supported the use of artificial intelligence
in their operations
Data source name Total number of
organizations using
artificial intelligence
Number of
organizations
supporting the use
of artificial
intelligence in their
operations
Number of
organizations who
don’t support the
use of artificial
intelligence in their
operations
Major hospitals 46 45 1
Clinics 67 65 2
Other healthcare
organizations
112 108 4

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2.4 Implementation
After obtaining all the required data and doing all the required modifications, the
implementation stage is undertaken.
2.4.1 The software and tools used in the analysis
After collecting, modifying, and recording of the required data, the data is usually analyzed
using the appropriate software and tools. In our case, the main software to be used in the analysis
of data are Ms. Word and Ms. Excel which will be used to analyze the obtained data and tabulate
them in tables and charts which will help to enhance their visualization and their understanding
to the other people who may be interested in the results of the research (Ward, Grinstein, and
Keim, 2015).
2.4.2 The actual analysis and tabulation of results
After doing some analysis, a table can be drawn to represent the results of the number of
organizations using artificial intelligence in percentages.
Table 7: A table showing the numbers and the percentages of the organizations using
artificial intelligence in their operations
Data source name Total number of
organizations used
in data collection
Number and
percentages of
organizations using
artificial intelligence
in their operations
Number and
percentages of
organizations not
using artificial
intelligence in their
operations

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Major hospitals 50 46 (92%) 4 (8%)
Clinics 80 67 (83.75%) 13 (16.25%)
Other healthcare
centers
150 112 (74.67%) 38 (25.33%)
The data shown in the table above can be represented by the pie charts shown below:
Figure 2: A pie chart showing the percentage of hospitals using and those not using
artificial intelligence in their operations
92%
8%
The percentage of hospitals using artificial intelligence in their operations
The percentage of hospitals not using artificial intelligence in their operations
Figure 3: A pie chart showing the percentage of clinics using and those not using artificial
intelligence in their operations

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83.75%
16.25%
The percentage of clinics using artificial intelligence in their operations
The percentage of clinics not using artificial intelligence in their operations
Figure 4: A pie chart showing the percentage of the other healthcare centers using and
those not using artificial intelligence in their operations
74.67%
25.33%
The percentage of other healthcare centers using artificial intelligence in
their operations
The percentage of other healthcare centers not using artificial
intelligence in their operations

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The bar graph shown below can be used to represent the data sources (the organizations
used in the data collection process)
Figure 5: A bar graph showing the numbers of the data sources
Major hospitals Clinics Other healthcare centers
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
50
80
150
Data source name
Number of organizations

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The number and the percentages of the organizations supporting and those not supporting
artificial intelligence in their operations are shown in the table below:
Table 8: A table showing the numbers and the percentages of the organizations supporting
the use of artificial intelligence in their operations
Data source name Total number of
organizations using
artificial intelligence
Number of
organizations
supporting the use
of artificial
intelligence in their
operations
Number of
organizations who
don’t support the
use of artificial
intelligence in their
operations
Major hospitals 46 45 (97.83%) 1 (2.17%)
Clinics 67 65 (97.01%) 2 (2.99%)
Other healthcare
organizations
112 108 (96.43%) 4 (3.57%)
From the table above, we can get the pie charts shown below:
Figure 6: A pie chart showing the percentage of hospitals supporting and those not
supporting artificial intelligence in their operations

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97.83%
2.17%
The percentage of major hospitals supporting artificial intelligence in their
operations
The percentage of major hospitals not supporting artificial intelligence in their
operations
Figure 7: A pie chart showing the percentage of clinics supporting and those not
supporting artificial intelligence in their operations
97.01%
2.99%
The percentage of clinics supporting artificial intelligence in their operations
The percentage of clinics not supporting artificial intelligence in their operations
Figure 8: A pie chart showing the percentage of the other healthcare centers supporting
and those not supporting artificial intelligence in their operations

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96.43%
3.57%
The percentage of the other healthcare centers supporting artificial intelligence in their operations
The percentage of the other healthcare centers not supporting artificial intelligence in their operations
The bar graph shown below can be used to represent the healthcare organizations using artificial
intelligence in their operations
Figure 9: A bar graph showing the organizations which support artificial intelligence in
their operations

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Major hospitals Clinics Other healthcare organizations
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
46
67
112
Names of organizations
Number of organizations
3 Result analysis
This section will analyze the estimated results and the actual results obtained in the whole
research process.
3.1 Results estimation
Before carrying out any research, it’s good to have a rough idea of the results you expect to
get in the research. The rough idea helps the researchers to make some estimations of the
expected results of the research. In our case, we expected that we have many major hospitals,
clinics, and other healthcare centers using artificial intelligence in their operations and we also
expected that artificial intelligence has helped to improve the performance of the healthcare

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organizations and so most of the healthcare organizations support artificial intelligence in their
operations (Iyengar, Kundu, and Pallis, 2018, pp.29-31). We also expected to find that there are
some challenges facing the application of artificial intelligence in the field of healthcare and the
healthcare organizations are undertaking some measures to help in addressing some of the major
challenges affecting the use of artificial intelligence in their operations (Price and Nicholson,
2017). The expectations we have explained can be seen as some of the major estimations of the
results which we made before carrying out the main research.
3.2 Results summary
From the analysis done above, we can make the following summary of the results:
92% of the major hospitals use artificial intelligence in their operations.
83.75% of the clinics use artificial intelligence in their operations.
74.67% of the other healthcare centers use artificial intelligence in their operations.
From the same data analysis, we can also say that of all the organizations which use
artificial intelligence in their operations:
97.83% of the major hospitals support the use of artificial intelligence in their operations.
97.01% of the clinics support the use of artificial intelligence in their operations.
96.43% of the other healthcare centers support the use of artificial intelligence in their
operations.

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The summary of the results given above clearly shows that artificial intelligence has affected the
healthcare sector positively, and that’s the main reason it’s supported by a very large percentage
of the medical organizations using it (Hamet and Tremblay, 2017, pp.36-40). Therefore, we can
end our research by saying that medical organizations should embrace the use of artificial
intelligence in their operations as it has very many benefits. Those medical organizations which
have not yet incorporated the use of artificial intelligence in their operations should strive to do
so as fast as possible for them to enjoy the many benefits. Lastly, we can say that the use of
artificial intelligence in the medical organizations has some few challenges and the organization
using it should look for some appropriate measures to address these challenges for them to enjoy
the many benefits with few or no challenges.
4 Outline of the research and result analysis
1 Data collection and storage
1.1 Data sources
1.2 Data collection
1.3 Data storage
2 Design and implementation
2.1 Data pre-processing
2.2 Feature selection or dimension reduction
2.3 Experiment designing
2.3.1 Detailed design steps
2.3.2 The results obtained

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2.4 Implementation
2.4.1 The software and tools used
2.4.2 The actual analysis and tabulation of results
3 Result analysis
3.1 Results estimation
3.2 Results summary
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