AI in Medicine

Indeed, human-AI synergy is more efficient

Although human adopt a mass society outlook, we do not evolve with a natural ability to form swarm intelligence. Unlike birds, bees, and fish which either manoeuvre in a crowd, or make use of the environment around them to conjure tight feedback loops among members, human are not able to create such

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This is not what machine learning is about

Last week, Derek A. Haas, Chief Executive Officer of healthcare technology and analytics company - Avant-garde Health; Eric C. Makhni, Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon at Henry Ford Health System; Joseph H. Schwab, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Sp

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Recent fuss about data-sharing

Discussion around data-sharing has never gone off the table. From questioning whether there is an ethical way to do so; if patients will be more motivated to share shall they know it is for a good cause, to the possibility of individuals recognizing themselves via their personal details; exploring n

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Should we expect a quantum gold-rush in medicine?

Classical computers make use of bits or electrical/optical pulses represented by 1 and 0. The binary digits form practically everything we virtually come across, from emails, tweets, to songs and videos. Quantum computers, contrarily, run on qubits or subatomic particles like electrons and photons. 

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Accuracy of some wearables may be in question

Vernon Ross is a podcasting consultant from St. Louis, Missouri. He has been using a Fitbit Charge HR since he was diagnosed with mild high blood pressure in 2017. As an African American, Ross soon realized his heart rate tracker not only produces fluctuating readings on a regular basis but these re

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From intelligence unit to intelligent health

It didn’t take long to realize that there was a gap in the system, when former intelligence officer Amihai Neiderman’s partner was manually reviewing thousands of medical records, in search of the one she needed for her research. “The unit in which I used to serve has so much data coming in that we

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Using technology to reduce medication-related harm

A nine-year-old boy with Asthma went to his primary care doctor who prescribed him a drug common to treating his condition, but by mistake, selected the wrong entry in a pull-down menu list on his computerized medication order entry system. He accidentally prescribed the boy with a potent anticoagul

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Can chatbot be our new health coach?

An anxious patient sent out a text, “I was diagnosed today and I’m scared that my whole life will change. Can you help?”  Almost instantly, replies came. “Hi Anna, this is Ariana. Yes, I’m here for you. We’ll get through this together. Think of me as your personal coach. I’ll help you learn about yo

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