Using AI To Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors Miss – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
While there is an intense discussion about how healthcare professionals and healthcare systems should adapt to the new era of digital health, we hear surprisingly little about the patients' perspectives and how they can level up to this new reality. This is the topic of our latest article .
Patient design and empowerment will be the focus of my next live Q&A . Patient scholar Dave deBronkart - also known as E-patient Dave - and I will be discussing why every stakeholder in healthcare should embrace this concept - for their own benefits as well.
Hungary has become a major testing ground for AI software to spot cancer as doctors debate whether the technology will replace them in medical jobs.
"At five hospitals and clinics that perform more than 35,000 screenings a year, A.I. systems were rolled out starting in 2021 and now help to check for signs of cancer that a radiologist may have overlooked. Clinics and hospitals in the United States, Britain and the European Union are also beginning to test or provide data to help develop the systems."
Information on becoming a “digital patient” is challenging to find, even though no one ever will be more motivated about our health issues than we are.
Digital health doesn’t equal using gadgets. It means that we, as patients, will need to take shared responsibility for our health. And we, as doctors, need to assist our patients on this journey. After all, we are travelling together to a place that will serve all of us better.
The impact AI will have on our everyday and professional lives can only be compared to the changes the Internet has brought to the world. We are at the dawn of a new era and our capabilities will be hugely enhanced by algorithms, machine- and deep learning.
The course was designed to provide a crystal-clear overview of the role artificial intelligence (AI) can play in medicine and healthcare. Just come as you are, no coding experience or special knowledge is needed!
A study showed that patients immersed in virtual reality while undergoing wide-awake surgery experience more joy and less anxiety than those who underwent surgery in a traditional operating room setting.
“VR transformed the experience of the patient,” he says. “They no longer had to starve from midnight, and they could drive the same day—have surgery and go home just like you do with the dentist.”
According to a new study, 60% of the time, virtual primary care telehealth appointments did not result in subsequent doctors visits!
"To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. However, 55% of patients with Medicare or Medicaid insurance coverage did not have an in-person follow-up after a primary care telehealth visit."
The question is more serious than you think. Involuntary privacy breaches become an issue as we use more and more smart technologies in our homes, especially for improving our health.
"Could someone hack a smart toilet and get personal health data? If so, they could learn if a smart toilet user was pregnant, had cancer, or was taking specific medications, for example—information most people would likely want kept private. Technically, almost any data transmitted online is hackable."
Last November, Google announced the 1,000 Languages Initiative: building a machine learning model that would support the world’s one thousand most-spoken languages.
"Today, we are excited to share more about the Universal Speech Model (USM), a critical first step towards supporting 1,000 languages. USM is a family of state-of-the-art speech models with 2B parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text, spanning 300+ languages."
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