If you're increasingly seeing ads for chiropractic care in your social media feeds, you're not alone. Currently valued at nearly $1.5 billion this year, the industry is expected to be worth almost 2.5 billion by 2032, with a compound annual growth rate of 7.4 percent per year. Chiropractic practitioners are turning to digital solutions like AI computers to handle the growth from streamlining operations to improving patient outcomes.
- What Is AI in Chiropractic Care?
- How Chiropractors Are Using AI to Improve Patient Care
- The Biggest Benefits of AI in Chiropractic Care
- Challenges of Implementing AI in Chiropractic Practices
What Is AI in Chiropractic Care?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that allows computers like medical AI box PCs to mimic most forms of human thinking, such as planning future events and understanding human language. The chiropractic industry looks to apply the technology in various ways, intending to enhance patient care and improve treatment results.
How Chiropractors Are Using AI to Improve Patient Care
Artificial intelligence can be used across many industries thanks to abilities ranging from processing and sorting data to making predictions. Chiropractic care, which aims to bring pain relief and increased motion for patients through the adjustment or realignment of their bones, has found several applications of the technology.
AI-Powered Office Management: Automating Scheduling and Billing
A chiropractic office can be busy, from scheduling patients to paying taxes. AI can automate many of these processes, like bill payment. Also, specific tasks like appointment scheduling can be optimized. The AI can analyze factors like patient preferences, treatment duration, and practitioner availability to determine the best date and time for everyone involved. And AI-subsets like predictive analytics can ensure that equipment, such as chiropractic activators and tables, is in tip-top shape for patient care.
Chatbots and Virtual Assistants for 24/7 Patient Support
Chiropractors spend time educating patients in and out of the office about their treatment and exercise routines. AI can take over many of these duties, with chatbots providing similar information 24/7 and easily accessed using natural language processing (example: "Please tell me more about my last treatment, and why she spent so much time on my hip.”)
AI-Enhanced Chiropractic Activators for Personalized Care
AI can quickly collect, sort, and organize massive amounts of data. Chiropractic practitioners look to use this ability to refine many of their techniques. For example, AI can determine which X-ray and MRI images displayed on medical-grade monitors need the chiropractor's immediate attention. Activators can be better applied on patients' spines thanks to data drawn from their electronic medical records and sorted by AI.
The Biggest Benefits of AI in Chiropractic Care
AI's benefits in chiropractic care are numerous, thanks to the technology's use across many areas, from paperwork management to image selection to targeted treatment. Some of these benefits include:
- AI allows chiropractors to streamline much of their administrative tasks, which means more focus on patient care.
- Through AI-led computer-aided diagnosis, chiropractors can make more accurate and timely diagnostics of patients' spines and other musculoskeletal areas.
- Chiropractors can provide more personalized and effective treatment plans thanks to information gathered by AI-enabled wearables and mobile health apps.
- Practitioners ensure their chiropractic equipment is properly managed through predictive maintenance, which reduces costs and downtime from repairs and replacement.
Challenges of Implementing AI in Chiropractic Practices
While chiropractic care has existed since the early 19th century, artificial intelligence is a recent innovation. The industry is concerned about whether AI technology can process the nuances of patients' issues, such as the symptoms' location, intensity, duration, etc. These and more differ between patients, sometimes significantly.
Part of this challenge is AI's need for massive amounts of data for training and decision-making. Such data may be scattered across various computers, the cloud, or isolated from communicating with each other ("silos"). The information may also be missing, forcing the practitioner to improvise.
Finally, chiropractic care falls under HIPAA regulation since it's classified as a form of alternative medicine. AI systems used by the chiropractor must be secure per regulations to protect sensitive patient information.
Let Cybernet Help Adjust AI to Your Chiropractic Clinic Needs
Chiropractic care looks to grow nearly eight percent per year by 2032. Chiropractors are looking to apply artificial intelligence to their practices to manage such growth. AI offers numerous applications and benefits thanks to its ability to process massive amounts of data rapidly and thoroughly. Since the data is highly sensitive and scattered across many sources, chiropractors must ensure that any AIs involved are secure from cyberattacks and bad actors.
If you're looking for AI solutions for your practice, contact the team at Cybernet Manufacturing. We're an OEM with deep healthcare experience, including the chiropractic field. Our team of experts will happily discuss IEC 60601 certification, fanless design, IP65, and other features that allow our medical computers to handle healthcare's unique challenges. They'll also cover how we can customize our PCs further to meet your specific practice's wants and needs.