Using AI To Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors Miss – The Medical Futurist Newsletter

Using artificial intelligence to help out with tasks human can't do as efficiently is the best way forward 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. I hope you will find the newsletter useful! Best regards, Berci Bertalan Meskó, PhD The Medical Futurist [USING A.I. TO DETECT BREAST CANCER THAT DOCTORS MISS]( 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." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? I loved what Dr. László Tabár, a leading mammography educator said: “I’m dreaming about the day when women are going to a breast cancer center, and they are asking, ‘Do you have A.I. or not?’” he said. [8 WAYS TO IMPRESS YOUR DOCTOR IN DIGITAL HEALTH]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Here are eight tips that will help anyone to start walking the path of empowered patients – and impress their doctors with these 21st-century skills. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? 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. [INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 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! [ENROLL NOW]( [VR RELAXES PATIENTS DURING WIDE-AWAKE SURGERY]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 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.” [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? The surgeon interested in this started a company called WAVR - Wide Awake VR, Inc. to make it happen. It will be interesting to see how his field evolves and when it can become a standard part of everyday medical practice. [MOST PRIMARY CARE TELEHEALTH VISITS DON'T REQUIRE IN-PERSON FOLLOW-UP, EPIC STUDY SHOWS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 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." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? This is an essential message about the rise of telemedicine: if deployed properly, it works. Simple as that. [WOULD A SMART TOILET LEAK YOUR PRIVATE INFO?]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 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." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? We need to extend our privacy-awareness to brand new areas of life. In this case, to toilets. But we could also mention smart tvs or voice activated chatbots. [UNIVERSAL SPEECH MODEL: STATE-OF-THE-ART SPEECH AI FOR 100+ LANGUAGES]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 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." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Last year, a study concluded that telemedicine leaves non-English speakers behind, which creates an inequality gap. As telemedical visits take place through the use of technologies and the discussion is digitized, an AI-based solution can jump in and translate live. MORE NEWS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE --------------------------------------------------------------- GENETIC CONDITIONS – [Forget designer babies. 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