Category: Health
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Norwegian Physiotherapy conference: Digital Health Considerations for Clinicians
Digital healthcare tools offer exciting possibilities while raising important questions for practitioners. In this presentation for the 2025 Norwegian Physiotherapy conference, I explored a range of considerations for clinicians around the integration of technology into practice. The key question I considered was, how do we ensure technology serves our patients’ needs while mitigating the risks…
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[Link] New AI picks up 97% of lung diseases, and can tell pneumonia from COVID-19
https://newatlas.com/medical-ai/ai-lung-disease/ A new AI model developed by researchers in Australia can detect lung diseases from ultrasound videos with 96.57% accuracy. It can distinguish between pneumonia, COVID-19, and other lung conditions, outperforming previous tools. The model explains its decisions, helping doctors trust and understand its results. This hybrid AI combines two techniques to identify patterns and…
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Physiopedia AI Masterclass courses are trending
All 4 AI courses on Physiopedia are currently trending. You can still sign up for free until 15 Nov 2024.
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Possible cancer vaccine
Andrew Gregory (2024-05-30). NHS Patients in England to Be Offered Trials for World-First Cancer Vaccine. The gamechanging jabs, which aim to provide a permanent cure, are custom-built for each patient in just a few weeks. They are tailored to the individual’s tumours and work by telling their body to hunt and kill any cancer cells…
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More details on HPE-Bot
HPE-Bot is a fantastic project being driven by someone deeply committed to health professions and medical education. If you think that generative AI is over-hyped, or that it doesn’t really have a place in HPE, consider playing around with this tool. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
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Physiopedia AI course for healthcare professionals is now live
The Physiopedia AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals Programme is a comprehensive course exploring AI’s impact on healthcare education, research, and clinical practice. This free online programme introduces frontier AI models, discusses AI’s potential in enhancing learning and research, and examines its role in diagnosis and clinical performance. Learn to integrate AI into your professional life…
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ChatGPT won’t be your doctor
Commercial frontier AI models like ChatGPT and Llama are known to hallucinate, but research proving this is redundant. Instead, attention should be on specialised medical AI systems like Google’s AMIE, which are showing impressive improvements in diagnostic accuracy. These purpose-built models, not general-purpose language models, are likely to be integrated into healthcare products.
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Short podcast series on health professions education in South Africa
A few years ago I initiated a project in SAAHE where I started interviewing recent PhD graduates to promote the work being done in South African health professions education. I realised recently that I hadn’t captured that series here as part of my portfolio, so I’ve posted it here for my own records.
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Blended Intensive Programmes on Digital Health and AI
ai, artificial intelligence, assignment, BIP, Blended Intensive Programme, digital health, digital health technology, European Commission, genAI, health intervention, healthcare technology, online learning, personal organisation, personal productivity, professional education, prompting, student modility, workshopDuring April-May, I participated in two Blended Intensive Programmes at Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, coordinated by Antonio Lopes, in collaboration with European physiotherapy schools. These programmes combined short-term physical mobility abroad and online components, featuring topics like digital health technologies, responsible AI use in education and research, and generative AI workshops.
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BIP Digital Health – Technology for managing healthcare interventions
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Joost van Wijchen and I discuss the influential role of technology in managing and recording healthcare interventions. We highlight the risks of uncritical technology adoption, examine how user interface design impacts patient care, and call for ethical considerations and sustainable practices. And we talk about empowering digital…
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BIP Digital Health – Technology to support the intervention process
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Christian Grüneberg, Franziska Weber and I, explore the impact of technology on physiotherapy practice. We discuss patient- and person-centred care, the role shift for physiotherapists, and the importance of digital health literacy. Participants were encouraged to innovate and identify steps to integrate digital technologies in practice, enhancing…
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BIP in Digital Health – Responsible use of digital health technologies
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Joost van Wijchen and I discussed responsible digital health technologies, focusing on security, regulatory, and ethical considerations, and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. We also discussed challenges in physiotherapy education and practice, emphasising the importance of proactively addressing risks and harnessing the benefits of digital health innovations.
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On being an academic
I wake up every day, and get to begin my day by working on problems that are intellectually and creatively fascinating to me. Linus Lee (2022). On Proving Yourself. Every now and again, I’m reminded of what an enormous privilege it is to be an academic.
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Article: Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models
Singhal, K., et al. (2023). Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models (arXiv:2305.09617). arXiv. From the abstract: We performed detailed human evaluations on long-form questions along multiple axes relevant to clinical applications. In pairwise comparative ranking of 1066 consumer medical questions, physicians preferred Med-PaLM 2 answers to those produced by physicians on eight…
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Without context, we see what we want to see
I don’t know anything about the backstory here, and am just assuming that the situation is as described in the title of the video. As soon as I saw the video, there were a few things I thought were worth noting: In short, given the lack of context, we all see what we want to…
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Policy recommendations for getting the best out of automation and AI in health care
Hardie T, Horton T, Willis M, Warburton W. (202). Switched on: How do we get the best out of automation and AI in health care? The Health Foundation. Initially I thought the recommendations in this report seemed self-evident. For example: However, policy recommendations that aim to guide decision-making in health care should be sensible, and…
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PSA: Go for a walk during meetings
Now that we’re all having meetings remotely you may want to think about going for a walk instead of sitting in front of your computer. Off the top of my head, here are a few benefits: Less distraction (harder to open Twitter and email in multiple tabs). Spending time outside instead of at your desk.…
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You are not what you’re thinking
If you asked me what I’ve learned in the past year or so that’s had the most significant impact on my well-being, it’s that I need not identify with my thoughts. In other words, recognising that I am not what I’m thinking. We all have that voice in our head telling us that we’re not…
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I got my Covid vaccine yesterday
Today is the last day of the Sisonke trial of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and yesterday is the day that I got my vaccination as part of the trial. Over the past couple of months we’ve been coordinating the vaccinations of our students, clinical supervisors, and patient- and student-facing lecturers, as part of a…
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Comment: An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus
…the algorithm doesn’t use social media postings because that data is too messy. But he does have one trick up his sleeve: access to global airline ticketing data that can help predict where and when infected residents are headed next. It correctly predicted that the virus would jump from Wuhan to Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei, and…