The COVID-19 crisis has brought about new clinical questions, new workflows, and accelerated distributed healthcare needs. Although 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, the opportunities and requirements for AI-based clinical decision support systems are identified and challenges that impact "AI readiness" for rapidly emergent healthcare challenges are highlighted.
Keywords: COVID-19; artificial intelligence; computer-assisted diagnoses; data science; healthcare; prognoses.
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