Quick Facts - Artificial Intelligence and Wound Care

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly transforming various fields, including health care. As a health care field which relies heavily on visual assessment for patient care, wound care may see many uses for AI in the near future. Wound care professionals should familiarize themselves with AI and its modalities in the health care space, so that they can not only use them effectively and ethically, but identify which technologies are right for their practice. This fact sheet provides several pearls about AI, its subdomains, and its uses in health care. It also answers several questions, including:

• Could AI save clinicians time?
• Can protected health information (PHI) be used in datasets?
• What are artificial neural networks?