TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER?
AI for health is a rapidly expanding area and one of the most exciting applications is the way technology can improve healthcare provision in developing countries. By providing even the simplest resources, such as free access to online research subscriptions for medical students, individuals are facilitated to find solutions to local health issues
COULD THE NEXT TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT LET YOU CHAT WITH YOUR SERVICE ANIMAL OR PET?
Developments in technology are improving communication between the human and animal kingdom in several new and exciting ways. Advancements range from using AI to decode the sonar sounds of sperm whales, to enabling dogs to ask humans for help, and vice versa.
FROM STONE AGE TO CUTTING EDGE TECH: DISPARITIES IN DIGITAL MATURITY ACROSS HEALTHCARE
The scheduling system used by my GP is antiquated at best. To book what is usually a telephone appointment you have to phone the practice up−and it needs to be immediately on opening if you are to have any chance of a phone consultation on the same day, patients are given vague appointment times (e.g. sometime in the afternoon), there is no reminder system and if an appointment is missed there is no prompt for the patient or the GP to reschedule.
THE DOCTOR ON YOUR WRIST
Wearable technology doesn’t just have the potential to save lives, it is already saving lives. Take, for example, the story of a woman who was alerted to her irregular heart rhythms by her apple watch and after further tests was diagnosed with a heart tumor.
THE THERAPIST WITHOUT EMOTIONS
In suggesting that Artificial Intelligence might be able to help us improve our mental health the first reactions I receive are often puzzled or confused looks: as if I had just asked your toaster to drive us to the airport. How can a programme with no true understanding of emotions help us de-code our own?
HOW TO PUT THE CARE BACK INTO HEALTHCARE
Consumers are increasingly dictating what they want and demand personalized services with an opportunity to shape what they consume. While personalized services and products are not a new creation, Artificial Intelligence has enabled us to implement personalization in sectors and at a scale not thought possible before.
DECODING HUMANS
We build our lives not around humans, but around machines. In order to cross a road, open a door or dry our hands, we rely on pressing buttons or activating sensors so a machine can recognise and read our movements.
SYNTHETIC DATA: THE GENERATIVE AI CURE FOR MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS
The modern-day party trick: give me any image you want to see, any at all… A painting resembling Starry Night with a hamster as the centrepiece? Voilà, Dall-e 2 can produce it.
MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERSONALIZE HEALTHCARE
Self-driving cars, Siri and space-exploring robots. All forms of machine learning artificial intelligence (‘AI’) driving the tech revolution.