Precision Algorithms in Healthcare: Improving treatments with AIDay1 Technologies
It’s 2020 and we can safely say that the year hasn’t been our best or what we wanted it to be like. The alarming spread of COVID-19, and its aftermath has people unrooted and shaken to their toes, and literally everyone is looking at technology and healthcare innovations to find an answer to the pandemic. And fast.
Promise and peril: How artificial intelligence is transforming health careΔρ. Γιώργος K. Κασάπης
AI has enormous potential to improve the quality of health care, enable early diagnosis of diseases, and reduce costs. But if implemented incautiously, AI can exacerbate health disparities, endanger patient privacy, and perpetuate bias. STAT, with support from the Commonwealth Fund, explored these possibilities and pitfalls during the past year and a half, illuminating best practices while identifying concerns and regulatory gaps. This report includes many of the articles we published and summarizes our findings, as well as recommendations we heard from caregivers, health care executives, academic experts, patient advocates, and others.
Optimising maternal & child healthcare in India through the integrated use of...Skannd Tyagi
This paper is a literature review on the present condition of pre-natal and post-natal Maternal and Child healthcare in Rural India. This is a first step on finding the several possibilities using AI, Big Data and Telemedicine in identifying patterns and provide more structured and streamlined support to rural and semi-urban communities. Our endeavour with this research paper is to identify the pain points and attempt to find solutions using current technologies.
Artificial Intelligence Service in HealthcareAnkit Jain
It is no secret that artificial intelligence is shaping new business landscapes in every industries. As one of emerging convergence technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates new products and services, finally innovating business models. Especially, it has been noted by industry experts and researchers that healthcare sector has the biggest potential of AI convergence. In fact, major technology companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM have invested in AI in healthcare sector. Thousands of AI startups are active launching innovative services related to healthcare.
Precision Algorithms in Healthcare: Improving treatments with AIDay1 Technologies
It’s 2020 and we can safely say that the year hasn’t been our best or what we wanted it to be like. The alarming spread of COVID-19, and its aftermath has people unrooted and shaken to their toes, and literally everyone is looking at technology and healthcare innovations to find an answer to the pandemic. And fast.
Promise and peril: How artificial intelligence is transforming health careΔρ. Γιώργος K. Κασάπης
AI has enormous potential to improve the quality of health care, enable early diagnosis of diseases, and reduce costs. But if implemented incautiously, AI can exacerbate health disparities, endanger patient privacy, and perpetuate bias. STAT, with support from the Commonwealth Fund, explored these possibilities and pitfalls during the past year and a half, illuminating best practices while identifying concerns and regulatory gaps. This report includes many of the articles we published and summarizes our findings, as well as recommendations we heard from caregivers, health care executives, academic experts, patient advocates, and others.
Optimising maternal & child healthcare in India through the integrated use of...Skannd Tyagi
This paper is a literature review on the present condition of pre-natal and post-natal Maternal and Child healthcare in Rural India. This is a first step on finding the several possibilities using AI, Big Data and Telemedicine in identifying patterns and provide more structured and streamlined support to rural and semi-urban communities. Our endeavour with this research paper is to identify the pain points and attempt to find solutions using current technologies.
Artificial Intelligence Service in HealthcareAnkit Jain
It is no secret that artificial intelligence is shaping new business landscapes in every industries. As one of emerging convergence technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates new products and services, finally innovating business models. Especially, it has been noted by industry experts and researchers that healthcare sector has the biggest potential of AI convergence. In fact, major technology companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM have invested in AI in healthcare sector. Thousands of AI startups are active launching innovative services related to healthcare.
Medical research is published with tremendous speed, making it nearly impossible for a doctor to keep up. Artificial Intelligence could be the answer. The growing amounts of available data enables the use of artificial intelligence in health care, as well as the increasingly sophisticated machine learning algorithms. Yet relatively little of these methods are used in health care.
In this report we set out ten provocative statements predicting the world of 2020. Each prediction is articulated and brought to life through a series of portraits which imagine how patients, healthcare professionals and life sciences organizations might behave in this new world. Our predictions lean more towards an optimistic view of the future, although we organized that many in our industry are organized about the constraints and therefore pace of change. We describe the big trends rolled forward to 2020 and some of the constraints that will need to be overcome.
We also provide examples and evidence, based on the here and now, that show that the predictions are perfectly plausible, perhaps inspiring and surprising!
Our industry is changing quickly – requiring a bold response that is often difficult to implement – and yet organizations struggle to understand how to respond effectively and build a sense of urgency. We hope this report creates rich dialogue and enables a move to action.– we have had enormous fun discussing these predictions and sharing our experiences. We hope you have the same experience within your own organizations as you peruse this report and reflect on your current situation and future scenarios.
Overview of the Challenges & Opportunities within Healthcare Information Technology amid the 2009 Healthcare Reforms. Cost savings, business models and medical technology and software solutions are described.
The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care offers substantial opportunities to improve patient and clinical team outcomes, reduce costs, and influence population health. Current data generation greatly exceeds human cognitive capacity to effectively manage information, and AI is likely to have an important and complementary role to human cognition to support delivery of personalized health care.1 For example, recent innovations in AI have shown high levels of accuracy in imaging and signal detection tasks and are considered among the most mature tools in this domain.2
However, there are challenges in realizing the potential for AI in health care. Disconnects between reality and expectations have led to prior precipitous declines in use of the technology, termed AI winters, and another such event is possible, especially in health care.3 Today, AI has outsized market expectations and technology sector investments. Current challenges include using biased data for AI model development, applying AI outside of populations represented in the training and validation data sets, disregarding the effects of possible unintended consequences on care or the patient-clinician relationship, and limited data about actual effects on patient outcomes and cost of care.
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care 247 Labs Inc
This presentation was shown at the Artificial Intelligence in Health Care event in Toronto Nov 16 2017. The discussion was to introduce various applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the health care field.
When it comes to AI use for prediction, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions, reality is often replaced with a hype. Limitations should be known. A review of AI failures and challenges in healthcare showing why it is not likely for algorithms to replace physicians in the nearest future.
Social Media took over our lives in most different aspects. Even health care providers are becoming more aware of how the digital world and services, i.e. Apps, social Networks,... can be of benefit for them and for their visitors and patients.
The Future Of Health 2014 www.psfk.com/future-of-health / #FutureOfHealth A Foreword PIERS FAWKES Founder & President, PSFK Labs labs.psfk.com Imagine a future where wearable technologies track key areas of your life to provide timely prompts about your health, and the data gathered can be uploaded securely to the cloud. Instead of going into the doctor’s office for a checkup, you would schedule a video consultation to discuss your recent readings. In instances when you need further care, your visits would be coordinated by medical records that flow seamlessly between key members of hospital staff and your care would be supported by relevant information that prepares you for what’s next. Your surgeon would be able to look at your results alongside the wider patient population or seek advice from specialists around the world to determine an optimal treatment plan; the effectiveness of which would determine their compensation. While the realities of the current model of healthcare tell a different story, we’re beginning to see exciting signs of change against daunting challenges. The World Economic Forum estimates that unless current trends reverse, five common ‘lifestyle’ diseases— cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and mental health problems—will cost the world $47 trillion in treatments and lost wages. Add that figure to a system that could see a shortage of 90,000 doctors in the US alone by the end of the decade, and the picture becomes bleak. Rather than view these as insurmountable obstacles, we choose to see a landscape full of opportunity. Despite a slow regulatory process a host of new mobile and social tools, sensor technologies and devices are being developed for an industry in need of change. These innovations are poised to improve health lifestyle choices and change the way care is delivered. We’re excited to share this patient-centered vision in our latest report.
Medical research is published with tremendous speed, making it nearly impossible for a doctor to keep up. Artificial Intelligence could be the answer. The growing amounts of available data enables the use of artificial intelligence in health care, as well as the increasingly sophisticated machine learning algorithms. Yet relatively little of these methods are used in health care.
In this report we set out ten provocative statements predicting the world of 2020. Each prediction is articulated and brought to life through a series of portraits which imagine how patients, healthcare professionals and life sciences organizations might behave in this new world. Our predictions lean more towards an optimistic view of the future, although we organized that many in our industry are organized about the constraints and therefore pace of change. We describe the big trends rolled forward to 2020 and some of the constraints that will need to be overcome.
We also provide examples and evidence, based on the here and now, that show that the predictions are perfectly plausible, perhaps inspiring and surprising!
Our industry is changing quickly – requiring a bold response that is often difficult to implement – and yet organizations struggle to understand how to respond effectively and build a sense of urgency. We hope this report creates rich dialogue and enables a move to action.– we have had enormous fun discussing these predictions and sharing our experiences. We hope you have the same experience within your own organizations as you peruse this report and reflect on your current situation and future scenarios.
Overview of the Challenges & Opportunities within Healthcare Information Technology amid the 2009 Healthcare Reforms. Cost savings, business models and medical technology and software solutions are described.
The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care offers substantial opportunities to improve patient and clinical team outcomes, reduce costs, and influence population health. Current data generation greatly exceeds human cognitive capacity to effectively manage information, and AI is likely to have an important and complementary role to human cognition to support delivery of personalized health care.1 For example, recent innovations in AI have shown high levels of accuracy in imaging and signal detection tasks and are considered among the most mature tools in this domain.2
However, there are challenges in realizing the potential for AI in health care. Disconnects between reality and expectations have led to prior precipitous declines in use of the technology, termed AI winters, and another such event is possible, especially in health care.3 Today, AI has outsized market expectations and technology sector investments. Current challenges include using biased data for AI model development, applying AI outside of populations represented in the training and validation data sets, disregarding the effects of possible unintended consequences on care or the patient-clinician relationship, and limited data about actual effects on patient outcomes and cost of care.
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care 247 Labs Inc
This presentation was shown at the Artificial Intelligence in Health Care event in Toronto Nov 16 2017. The discussion was to introduce various applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the health care field.
When it comes to AI use for prediction, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions, reality is often replaced with a hype. Limitations should be known. A review of AI failures and challenges in healthcare showing why it is not likely for algorithms to replace physicians in the nearest future.
Social Media took over our lives in most different aspects. Even health care providers are becoming more aware of how the digital world and services, i.e. Apps, social Networks,... can be of benefit for them and for their visitors and patients.
The Future Of Health 2014 www.psfk.com/future-of-health / #FutureOfHealth A Foreword PIERS FAWKES Founder & President, PSFK Labs labs.psfk.com Imagine a future where wearable technologies track key areas of your life to provide timely prompts about your health, and the data gathered can be uploaded securely to the cloud. Instead of going into the doctor’s office for a checkup, you would schedule a video consultation to discuss your recent readings. In instances when you need further care, your visits would be coordinated by medical records that flow seamlessly between key members of hospital staff and your care would be supported by relevant information that prepares you for what’s next. Your surgeon would be able to look at your results alongside the wider patient population or seek advice from specialists around the world to determine an optimal treatment plan; the effectiveness of which would determine their compensation. While the realities of the current model of healthcare tell a different story, we’re beginning to see exciting signs of change against daunting challenges. The World Economic Forum estimates that unless current trends reverse, five common ‘lifestyle’ diseases— cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and mental health problems—will cost the world $47 trillion in treatments and lost wages. Add that figure to a system that could see a shortage of 90,000 doctors in the US alone by the end of the decade, and the picture becomes bleak. Rather than view these as insurmountable obstacles, we choose to see a landscape full of opportunity. Despite a slow regulatory process a host of new mobile and social tools, sensor technologies and devices are being developed for an industry in need of change. These innovations are poised to improve health lifestyle choices and change the way care is delivered. We’re excited to share this patient-centered vision in our latest report.
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Healthcare has made massive developments and advancements in recent years, particularly in clinical research, biomedical improvement, digital technology, processes, and systems.
However, it nonetheless faces several complications, together with a lack of healthcare workers at the frontlines, an increase in health disparities between nations with various income levels, and a vast quantity of health spending that has not yielded the favored health outcomes. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as an approach to deal with these challenges, using technologies such as ML – Machine Learning and DL – Deep Learning.
From disease diagnosis to personalized treatment plans, the integration of AI-powered solutions has shown its capability to change the way healthcare works. The ability to process big volumes of information rapidly and appropriately has created new possibilities for enhancing patient care, lowering prices, and enhancing efficiency in the Healthcare system.
In this blog, we will explore How AI is Transforming Healthcare and its impact on both patients and Healthcare providers. let's first delve into the reasons why Healthcare is adopting AI.
Digital technology is changing the relationship between patient and doctor, and healthcare providers must adopt new approaches to data and information.
Read our new article to gain insights of how the adoption of cloud affects the healthcare industry.
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Discover the pivotal role of AI in early disease detection, where predictive analytics and data-driven algorithms contribute to proactive interventions.
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In the field of medicine, Artificial Intelligence (AI) goes a long way in strengthening and improvising the communication between Doctors and Patient like never before. The Healthcare industry requires enormous amounts of digitized data to be periodically shared, stored and yet kept secure at the same time. Smart algorithms are powering artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the healthcare sector By enabling intelligent applications to not only speak and listen but also to make decisions in unrivaled ways to nullify human errors.
Read this research paper to know how AI is taking healthcare by storm.
Unraveling the Tapestry of Health Informatics: Navigating the Digital Landsca...greendigital
Introduction
In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, technology integration has become indispensable. Health informatics is a multidisciplinary field combining health science. information technology, and data management, is pivotal in transforming healthcare delivery. improving patient outcomes, and streamlining clinical processes. This article delves into the intricate tapestry of health informatics. exploring its various facets, applications, challenges. and the promising future for the healthcare industry.
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I. Understanding Health Informatics
A. Definition and Scope
Health informatics applies information and computer science to healthcare delivery, management, and planning. It encompasses various technologies and methodologies designed to enhance healthcare information's acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use. The scope of health informatics extends beyond electronic health records (EHRs) to include telemedicine. mobile health (mHealth), health information exchange (HIE), and more.
B. Key Components
1. Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
EHRs serve as digital repositories of patient health information. promoting seamless data sharing among healthcare providers. This section explores the benefits, challenges, and future advancements in EHR systems. emphasizing their role in improving care coordination and patient engagement.
2. Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring
The rise of telemedicine has revolutionized the way healthcare services delivered. Discussing the impact of telemedicine on access to care, patient outcomes. and the challenges associated with its widespread adoption provides a comprehensive overview of this crucial component of health informatics.
II. Applications of Health Informatics
A. Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)
CDSS leverages advanced algorithms and data analytics to assist healthcare providers in making informed decisions. By examining real-world examples and success stories. this section highlights the role of CDSS in enhancing diagnostic accuracy. treatment planning, and patient care.
B. Precision Medicine
It is pivotal in advancing precision medicine. and tailoring treatments based on individual patient characteristics. Explore the integration of genomics, proteomics, and other 'omics' data into clinical practice. shedding light on the potential of personalized medicine in improving treatment outcomes.
C. Public Health Informatics
The intersection of health informatics and public health is vital for disease surveillance. outbreak response, and health promotion. Analyzing the contributions of informatics to public health initiatives provides insights into its role in safeguarding population health.
III. Challenges in Health Informatics
A. Data Security and Privacy
As the volume of health data grows, ensuring patient information security. and privacy becomes a paramount concern. This section delves into the challenges and strategies for safeguarding sensitive health
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in HealthcareChristine Shepherd
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as transformative technologies within the healthcare sector. These advanced computational tools offer the potential to revolutionize medical diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. Through the analysis of vast datasets, AI and ML can identify patterns, make predictions, and assist healthcare professionals in making more informed decisions. Applications range from image recognition in radiology to drug discovery, personalized treatment recommendations, and the enhancement of administrative processes. As these technologies continue to advance, they hold great promise for improving healthcare outcomes and efficiency. However, their implementation also raises ethical, regulatory, and security considerations that must be carefully addressed to ensure their responsible use in healthcare settings.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare
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The Opportunities and Risks of
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and
Healthcare
Dr. Sobia Hamid, The Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge
rtificial Intelligence (AI) is
increasingly being applied in
healthcare and medicine, with the
greatest impact being achieved thus far in
medical imaging. These are technologies
that are capable of performing a task that
usually requires human perception and
judgement, which can make them
controversial in a healthcare setting. In this
article we will explore some of the
opportunities and risks in using AI in
healthcare, as well as policy
recommendations for improving their use
and acceptance.
Opportunities
New AI technologies can identify subtle
signs of disease in medical images faster
and more accurately than humans. One
example is the deep learning algorithm
developed by Enlitic, Picture Archiving and
Communications (PAC), which detects signs
of disease in medical imaging modalities
including MRI, CT scans, ultrasound and x-
rays. PAC contextualizes the imaging data
by comparing it to large datasets of past
images, and by analysing ancillary clinical
data, including clinical reports and
laboratory studies. As a result, Enlitic claims
doctors may be able to achieve 50-70%
more accurate results with PAC compared to
human radiologists working alone, and at
50,000 times faster speed.
Another key area of medicine where AI is
impacting is in clinical decision-making, in
particular disease diagnosis. These AI
technologies can ingest, analyse and report
on large volumes of data, across different
modalities, to detect disease and guide
clinical decisions. For example, Lumiata’s
graph-based analytics and risk prediction
system has reportedly “ingested more than
160 million data points from textbooks,
journal articles, public data sets and other
places in order to build graph
representations of how illnesses and
patients are connected.”
2
This new
knowledge can help in understanding the
multifactorial basis of disease and guide the
development of new treatments.
Big data also has a role to play.
Complementary technologies such as ‘smart
wearables’ have the potential to increase the
power of medical AI through the provision of
large volumes of diverse health-relevant
data, collected directly from the user. The
combined impact of these technologies will
help us to move closer towards achieving
‘precision medicine’, an emerging approach
to disease treatment and prevention that
takes into account individual variability in
genes, environment, and lifestyle.
The combined impact of these
technologies will help us to move
closer towards achieving ‘precision
medicine,’ an emerging approach to
disease treatment and prevention.
Hospitals, doctors and nurses are
overworked and cost and time efficiencies
are always being sought. Automating
elements of medical practice means
A
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clinicians will increasingly have more time
to spend with the patient on those tasks
where human-delivered care is key. Focus
will transition to working on more complex
cases, clinical interpretation, and patient
communication. These areas can also
benefit from AI input, and together should
help the medical and technology community
to address a greater number of medical
needs and overall improve the delivery of
healthcare.
Risks
While we can look forward to the benefits of
AI to improve healthcare, the adoption of
these technologies is not without
considerable potential risks. The clinical
setting, healthcare provision and patient
data necessitate the highest level of
accuracy, reliability, security and privacy.
Consistent accuracy is important to
preserve trust in the technology, but AI is
still in its infancy. Whilst AI systems may
have been trained on comprehensive
datasets, in the clinical setting they may
encounter data and scenarios that they have
not been trained on, potentially making them
less accurate and reliable and therefore
putting at risk patient safety. As
aforementioned, medical AI systems may
work with consumer-facing smart
wearables, and use the data they generate.
A recent study showed that the heart rate
readings provided by one of the most
popular smart wearables, the Fitbit
PurePulse Trackers, “do not provide a valid
measure of the users’ heart rate and cannot
be used to provide a meaningful estimate of
a user’s heart rate”, and in fact differed
from ECG readings by an average of 20
bpm.
5
The data collected by these devices is also
sensitive and needs to be safeguarded with
the highest security standards. A study
6
showed that 20 out of the 43 fitness apps
analysed included high-risk data, such as
address, financial information, full name,
health information, location and date of
birth. If we work from the premise that all
personal data can be identifiable, then it is
critical that all data used in a medical setting
is safeguarded. Given that there is an
important distinction between clinical and
non-clinical use, and the fact that data from
non-clinical smart wearables may feed into
clinical AI systems, it will be necessary to
identify where clinical-level accuracy and
reliability needs to be implemented.
Both accuracy and security are required to
foster trust in these new technologies. A
lack of trust in AI systems may significantly
impinge adoption of technologies that may
otherwise offer significant improvements in
patient outcomes. Trust can be gained
through greater transparency in how results
are achieved. For instance, how the AI
system came to a recommendation that the
patient should have a mastectomy. Currently
this is a technological issue that the
technical community is addressing, and so
solutions should come henceforth.
Addressing the risks posed by medical AI is
important as technological development and
implementation ramp up growth. Industry
estimates predict that by 2018, 50 percent
of the more than 3.4 billion smartphone and
tablet users will have downloaded mobile
health apps
7
.
Encouraging the Rapid, Ethical,
and Responsible Growth of
Medical AI
The accuracy, reliability, security and
clinical use of medical AI technologies would
need to be ensured through a combination of
standards and regulation. Existing
regulatory frameworks would need to
develop to address medical AI technologies,
which have their own ethical problems to
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contend with. Artificial intelligence
programs may be able to learn and alter
their recommendations in ways not intended
or foreseen by their creators. That, and the
diversity of development approaches across
the planet,
8
poses challenges for current
regulatory frameworks that would therefore
need to evolve to define guidelines and best
practice.
The development of standards for data
collection and testing of medical AI
technologies should be a community-driven
effort, led by clinicians, industry, academia
and stakeholders. Dedicated research and
open-source development addressing the
key issues would facilitate the growth of
medical AI. A comparable undertaking can
be found in the related field of genomic
medicine. The Global Alliance for Genomics
and Health brings together over 375 leading
institutions working in healthcare, research,
disease advocacy, life science, and
information technology, to provide
recommendations and solutions to mitigate
the risks associated with the accumulation
of large datasets of medical and genetic
information.
As the role of the clinician will evolve,
medical education will need to focus
more on complex disease scenarios,
and developing skillsets to navigate,
understand, and communicate the
myriad of data that may be called upon
for a given medical scenario.
This is very feasible. A ‘Global Alliance for
Artificial Intelligence in Health’ could
collaborate with the planned NHS ‘test bed’
sites, real world sites for ‘combinatorial’
innovations that integrate new technologies,
new staffing models and payment-for-
outcomes
9
. The NHS ‘test beds’, which are
planned over the next 5 years, would
facilitate the implementation of AI
technologies within clinical settings.
Furthermore, putting in place a mechanism
to inform the relevant national and
international public bodies about the results
and outcomes is also important.
Medical education would also need to
expand to better include new technology.
Today’s educational curriculum
encompasses minimal teaching of
technologies that medical practitioners will
use, or come into contact with in their
profession. For AI systems to be fully
appreciated and implemented as they are
intended within clinical practice, there would
need to be dedicated training in
understanding and working with these new
technologies, which will even take on
certain clinical tasks with complete
autonomy, such as diagnosis and surgery.
Furthermore, as the role of the clinician will
evolve, medical education will need to focus
more on complex disease scenarios, and
developing skillsets to navigate, understand
and communicate the myriad of data that
may be called upon for a given medical
scenario. In order to equip medical students
to meet these demands, medical education
will need to be more holistic to incorporate
understanding of the technologies and the
results they generate.
Finally, healthcare IT systems today can be
fragmented and cumbersome to work with,
presenting challenges for implementation of
new technologies. Interoperability and IT
procurement would need to evolve to meet
the growing need for advanced technologies
in clinical practice, and would need to
ensure that the data and outcomes are
integrated seamlessly into an end-to-end
care pathway.
Conclusion
If policymakers, hospitals and universities
consider these policy issues, we would be in
a better place to take advantages of AI’s
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opportunities for healthcare. Without them,
the risks of poor accuracy, security and
understanding may cause untold problems.
With such a controversial technology such
as artificial intelligence, it is imperative that
policymakers make decisions while the
technology is still young, before they are
forced to make policy reactively.
References
[1] Russell, S. J., Norvig, P. and Davis, E. (2009) Artificial
intelligence: A modern approach
[2] Harris, D. (2014) How Lumiata wants to scale medicine
with machine learning and APIs
[3] Health, I. (2015) IMS institute on the App store
[4] Hood, W. (2015) A report on how doctors engage with
digital technology in the workplace
[5] Jo, E., Dolezal B.A. (2016) Validation of the Fitbit®
SurgeTM and Charge HRTM Fitness Trackers
[6] Fact sheet 39: Mobile health and fitness Apps: What
are the privacy risks? (2013)
[7] 500m people will be using healthcare mobile
applications in 2015 (2010)
[8] Danaher, J. (2015) Is Regulation of Artificial
Intelligence Possible?
[9] Timmins, N., COI and NHS (2014) Five Year Forward
View.
[10] Image Credit: http://tinyurl.com/jnhhvhn
About the Author
Dr Sobia Hamid has
been working in the
area of precision
medicine across
academia, venture
capital, biotech and
pharma. Most recently,
she lead the precision
medicine arm of Invoke
Capital, a venture capital firm - supporting
and investing in companies developing
innovative technologies in the area of
machine learning. Sobia completed her PhD
in Epigenetics at the University of
Cambridge, undertaking her research into
genomic imprinting at The Babraham
Institute. In 2011, she founded Data Insights
Cambridge, an 800+ member nonprofit
community of data scientists focussed on
learning and skills exchange.