7 AI In Healthcare Examples Improving The Future Of Medicine – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
The last live Q&A of the year covered the most exciting digital health trends of 2022 and 2023. It was a buzzing stream with a hefty amount of incoming questions. If you missed it, come over and catch up here.
Meanwhile, we dived into the topic of a wearable gastric sensor with one of our team members stepping in as a test subject. You can read the dual-perspective review on the website.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic idea. It's already here, and it offers hands-on benefits in diagnostics and therapies in a number of medical specialties.
AI has the potential to highly optimize medical pathways and support the work of nurses and doctors, generating better patient outcomes. Here are 7 existing examples from sepsis watch to stroke detection.
The US Food and Drug Administration just published an overview of augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) medical devices!
The FDA already has a list of 39 AR/VR products across therapeutic areas, including orthopedics, ophthalmics, radiology, neurology and cardiovascular.
Which medical fields will be most profoundly transformed by AI in short term? What are the top use cases today and what to expect tomorrow? What are the risks, the social and ethical dilemmas we face?
These are some of the questions we tackled in the latest update of our AI ebook. The 2022 edition is out, you can find your copy (or the free update of the previously purchased edition on leanpub.
Recently, I tested a skin patch that measures my blood pressure for 24 hours. Then I thought it was time to retire the old cuffs in favor of the skin patch. It appears that there may be an even easier way to obtain blood pressure.
"At the University of South Australia, researchers designed a system that visualizes the patient’s forehead and determines photoplethysmographic signals that AI algorithms then convert to blood pressure data."
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There is a huge demand for a better understanding of the workings of our gastric systems, and so far, nobody has been able to collect digital health data about it meaningfully. Although the stomach is controlled by an electrical conduction system regulating its contractions, the signals are weak, a hundred times weaker than those of the heart.
So far, the technical challenge was finding a way to capture these mild signals in a clinically reliable manner. A reliable solution that patients could use at home or at the point of care would be a hit.
The main question, again, is this: will your kids play with it with you, or instead of you?
The promises are bold: “Create with Alexa uses advances in conversational and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to empower young storytellers to build unique stories with a narrative arc, colorful graphics, and fun, complementary background music. The animated stories then come to life on the screen of an Echo Show device."
This pilot launched in the UK is in line with at least one digital health trend: making patients the point of care.
"The trial – which is the first of its kind in England and part of the government’s plans to digitise the existing NHS Health Check – will see patients complete an online questionnaire, use a kit to take a blood sample at home, and complete a blood pressure check at their local pharmacy or in their GP’s waiting room."
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