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Artificial intelligence does wonders in healthcare. The technology helped issue the first COVID-19 warning before the WHO and CDC did so. It can slash the phenomenon of alarm fatigue. IBM’s Watson Health leverages the power of A.I. to bring drugs to the market faster. And it does so while cutting costs by over 50%.
From predicting one’s cardiovascular risks by only looking at the eye, through identifying the risk Alzheimer’s years before diagnosis to assessing a patient’s likelihood of being admitted to the hospital, artificial intelligence is continuing on its trend to surprise us. Let’s find out more about the detective work of A.I.!
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US government officials are using cellphone location data from the mobile ad industry —not data from the carriers themselves— to track Americans’ movements during the coronavirus outbreak, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with state and local governments have received cell phone data about people in areas of “geographic interest,” the WSJ reports.
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WHY IT'S IMPORTANT?
Maybe this is an issue that will mark a new era in our lives: how much of our privacy we are willing to give up in exchange for a chance for a safer, healthier life.
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For Covid-19, a kind of medical hive mind is on the case. By the tens of thousands, doctors are joining specialized social media groups to develop answers in real time. One of them, a Facebook group called the PMG COVID19 Subgroup, has 30,000 members worldwide.
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WHY IT'S IMPORTANT?
Doctors are trying to fill an information void online.
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To understand A.I.’s future role in healthcare, medicine, and your lives, you must understand the language it speaks. Yes, it speaks a language and you can master it!
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WE HUMANS WEREN’T ready for the novel coronavirus—and neither were the machines. The pandemic has come at an awkward time, technologically speaking. Ever more sophisticated robots and AI are augmenting human workers, rather than replacing them entirely. While it would be nice if we could protect doctors and nurses by turning more tasks over to robots, medicine is particularly hard to automate. It’s fundamentally human, requiring fine motor skills, compassion, and quick life-and-death decisionmaking we wouldn’t want to leave to machines.
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Wearable giant Fitbit announced in a blog post, that it is supporting people during the pandemic by offering 90-day free trials of its Fitbit Premium and Fitbit Coach services. The premium service includes more than 150 workouts, while Fitbit Coach allows users to stream workout videos on phones or computers.
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On the frontlines of the coronavirus, crisis providers are tapping into digital mechanisms to communicate with patients and track the spread of the disease.
Yesterday MassChallenge hosted a summit on innovation in the age of the coronavirus crisis, which included a panel on how tech can play a role in direct patient care.
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© The Medical Futurist 2020
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