The SOAP note allows a complicated problem to be broken down into components to then become a simple problem. However, in Global Health today, this complicated problem is treated as a complex problem because it is felt that only a doctor with decades of experience and a medical degree would be able to accurately diagnose and treat Malaria.

In Low and Middle Income Countries, where doctors are in short supply, can some level of healthcare be provide by applying Artificial Intelligence to the SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) Protocol along with a touch of the Bayesian Priors?