Kick-Start 2024 For AI In Healthcare – The Medical Futurist Newsletter

This year will see a major influx of GenAI solutions Happy New Year to all! I'm slowly getting back from the paternity & seasonal break. This has been a blessed period, bringing so much joy to our growing family. Our youngest is almost a month old and has the appetite of a Viking warrior. Thank you all for the kind wishes we received, they warmed our hearts! However, I can hardly wait to get back into full-speed work mode, as this is certainly going to be a very exciting year, with much focus on AI and generative AI. This newsletter is a kick-off edition, helping you prepare for what's coming in the 'AI in healthcare' scene with all you need to be up-to-date. I hope you will find the newsletter useful! Best regards, Berci Bertalan Meskó, PhD The Medical Futurist [A YEAR IN AI: THE MOST IMPORTANT 2023 MILESTONES FOR MEDICINE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In our futuristic medical landscape, 2023 emerged as the definitive year for artificial intelligence. After years of anticipation surrounding AI's transformative potential in healthcare, the revolution, once a somewhat nebulous prospect, finally materialized. AI’s leap in healthcare with ChatGPT’s rise, specialized models like Med-PaLM, and a focus on regulatory frameworks and multimodality were/are major landmarks of this journey. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? This is a birds-eye overview of this past year, summarizing the timeline and the major milestones. [GENERATIVE AI EXPLAINED – ITS IMPACT AND FUTURE IN HEALTHCARE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Generative AI has significant potential in healthcare and is likely to become integral in future healthcare practices sooner than most of us would have thought a few months ago. Here is an overview of this technology helping you understand what it is, how it works, and what we'll use it for. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? These tools will arrive to the clinical work and will help us in easing staff shortage. [EBOOK: GENERATIVE AI IN HEALTHCARE - THE CHATGPT REVOLUTION]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Medical professionals don’t need to become data scientists or deep learning experts, but they need a “scientific understanding” of how to use AI, what it’s good for, and for what purposes we can expect AI assistance. Similarly, as we don’t need to be able to build an MRI machine, but we need to understand its use cases. Extreme attitudes, like paralysing fear or blind optimism towards the AI-assisted future of medicine won’t serve our patients or anyone’s career goals. We aim to show the smart and practical way to relate to this – indeed very significant – new technology to make the best of it. [GET IT HERE]( [PROMPT ENGINEERING FOR HEALTHCARE: 11 TIPS TO CRAFT GREAT CHATGPT PROMPTS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- To efficiently work with generative AI agents like ChatGPT, we need to learn the tricks of communication. Or, to say it fancier: we need to do prompt engineering. Nothing to fear of, these simple techniques will help you get the desired output and save you lots of time. Note, at the time of writing ChatGPT did not have real-time internet access, this has changed, making things simpler. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? The new colleagues are arriving and we can easily learn the language they speak. [TOP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANIES IN HEALTHCARE TO KEEP AN EYE ON]( --------------------------------------------------------------- AI could help medical professionals in designing treatment plans and finding the best-suited methods for every patient. It might assist repetitive, monotonous jobs, so physicians and nurses can concentrate on their actual jobs instead of e.g. fighting with the tread wheel of bureaucracy. So, let me introduce you to companies that are on the best way to democratize healthcare through artificial intelligence. It is truly worth keeping an eye on them since they are great partners in building more transparent and effective healthcare. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? Developing fascinating algorithms for the general population is one thing, making them healthcare-proof is an entirely different cup of tea. Here are some solid examples. [SEVEN REASONS TO BE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF AI IN MEDICINE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Everywhere we look, there seems to be an air of pessimism surrounding AI, the news outlets never got tired of publishing doomsday scenarios. Respectable thinkers have spread fear, major tech companies and moguls called for a moratorium and Silicon Valley has split into fractions. Despite these concerns, I maintain a positive outlook on the future of AI in healthcare. While I do hold opinions about AI in general, I’ll refrain from commenting on that aspect. Let’s just say I’m using healthcare as a yardstick while explaining why I’m optimistic about the future of AI. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? We cannot sustain healthcare without this paradigm shift, where the medical team – comprising the patient and doctor – welcomes a third member: a technological entity, artificial intelligence. [THE EVOLUTION OF CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION: FROM PAPER TO AI]( --------------------------------------------------------------- The healthcare sector has seen a shift from paper records to administrators, electronic medical records, voice-to-text applications, and looks forward to the potential of Multimodal Large Language Models (M-LLMs) which promise an era where we can look at the patient again, instead of staring at the computer screen. While the trajectory suggests AI as the inevitable solution for clinical documentation, the deployment of such systems requires specifically trained models, extensive regulatory safeguards, and a meticulous approach before they can be seamlessly integrated or offered as a packaged product. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Streamlining and/or automating unpopular documentation tasks is a very logical step to address global healthcare worker shortages, and is a great way to free up their capacities for more meaningful tasks. MORE NEWS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE --------------------------------------------------------------- DOING DRUGS – [Top 6 Companies Using AI In Drug Discovery And Development]( DOCTOR AI – [MedPaLM: New AI Medical Chatbots Will Soon Be Better Than Waiting For A Doctor]( ALREADY APPROVED – [The Current State Of Almost 700 FDA-Approved, AI-Based Medical Devices]( PRACTICAL ANSWER – [5 Ways You Can Use AI In Your Healthcare RIGHT NOW]( [color-forwardtofriend-48.png](mailto:berci@medicalfuturist.com) [color-facebook-48.png]( [color-youtube-48.png]( [color-linkedin-48.png]( [color-twitter-48.png]( [color-instagram-48.png]( © The Medical Futurist 2024 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Medical Futurist · Budapest · Budapest, Pest 1118 · Hungary