Source – https://www.eurasiareview.com/ Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO’s report, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, is the result of Read More
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Source – https://www.who.int/ Growing use of AI for health presents governments, providers, and communities with opportunities and challenges Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to new WHO Read More
Source – https://healthitanalytics.com/ CommonSpirit Health, Providence, and Northwell Health are among the major health providers building a big data analytics platform to improve care. Fourteen leading healthcare providers are partnering to form Truveta, a new company that will leverage big data analytics for enhanced care insights. Providers involved in the effort include AdventHealth, Advocate Aurora Health, Baptist Read More
Source: lens.monash.edu Dr Nicole Robinson is a research fellow at Monash University working across two disciplines – engineering and medicine. Specifically, robotics and psychology. She’s led a new research trial offering a glimpse into the near-future of digital healthcare. It found social robots – as helpers – can deliver a multi-session behaviour-change treatment around diet and weight reduction without Read More
Source: unite.ai An AI-driven health monitoring and disease detection platform was able to catch the signs of the Wuhan viral outbreak approximately a week before government agencies warned the public, providing a look at how AI can be used to catch disease outbreaks in a timely fashion. While the official World Health Organization notification of Read More
Source: digitalhealth.net The work will include up to four projects and a new partnership that will integrate with Health Data Research UK’s (HDRUK) existing research programmes. The Better Care Partnership was established to lead a new data science initiative, which could receive up to £1.2 million in funding. Initially funded for three years, it will Read More
Source: thesuburban.com Oil and gas pipelines have become polarizing issues in Canada, but supporters and detractors alike can agree that the safer they are, the better. With news emerging last month that the Keystone pipeline leak in North Dakota may have affected almost 10 times the amount of land previously reported, the issue of pipeline Read More
Source: theguardian.com Artificial intelligence is on a par with human experts when it comes to making medical diagnoses based on images, a review has found. The potential for artificial intelligence in healthcare has caused excitement, with advocates saying it will ease the strain on resources, free up time for doctor-patient interactions and even aid the development of Read More
Source: zdnet.com The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) has announced a machine learning research sponsorship from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that would see the alliance aim to advance innovation in areas such as cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies, and medical imaging. The PHDA is a consortium formed by Pittsburgh’s UPMC hospital, the University of Read More
Source: benefitspro.com Few areas of the corporate world are fraught with the conflicting objectives found in employee health. Company health plans are designed to maintain employee health. Healthy employees are more productive. And generous health coverage bolsters recruitment and retention, a key goal in the zero-employment economy. But benefits are also a nagging cost center. Read More
Source: newkerala.com Livongo Members can now connect their smartwatches to the Livongo mobile app to receive real-time Livongo notifications on the surface of their choice enabling Livongo to provide more timely and relevant information to Members and their care teams. Smartwatches are one of the fastest growing new technologies today and it is estimated that Read More
Source- dailystar.co.uk The world of AI and automatons is rapidly developing as industries use to emerging technologies to gain a competitive edge, such as in the automobile industry. But there are concerns that such speedy innovation could have unintended and widely unforeseen effects on the human population of the world. Some experts in the field believe a consequence Read More
Source – forbes.com Eliezer Yudkowsky, a leading proponent of “friendly” artificial intelligence, offers a cautionary observation about the potential of AI — solving problems by using computers to solve tasks that usually require human intelligence. “The greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence,” he writes, “is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” Any serious discussion Read More