Table 2.

Research questions and discussions

Research questions	Motivation
What are the current challenges in the healthcare domain in pandemic times?	The exponential rise in the number of cases has lead to overburdening of the existing healthcare infrastructure and the challenges hospital resource allocation
What is the key requirement of the healthcare domain?	The key requirement of the healthcare domain is safety, efficiency, and timely service
What is the importance of AI in the healthcare domain?	AI can reduce diagnostics time, reduce errors, predict health outcomes, and can automatically update healthcare information present in various devices
What are the potential applications of AI for COVID-19	AI can help to reduce the burden on the healthcare industry by aiding in diagnostics, helping the government in ensuring that social distancing norms are being obeyed, and can also help in the faster discovery of the vaccine
What are the advantages of integrating AI with the healthcare system?	AI decisions are data-driven, so better diagnosis efficiency and automatization of some tasks can reduce the administrative costs and unnecessary visits to the hospitals
What is the current research direction in the AI-healthcare domain?	Over the previous years, AI is being used in many domains, and especially in the healthcare domain, it is getting attention from both researchers and medical professionals