Tag: data
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Two clinical perspectives on technology and time to care
Two clinical perspectives on technology in healthcare, showing different levels of digital adoption in their specialities. Physiotherapy focuses on encouraging simple digital practices for efficiency, while radiology is advanced in incorporating AI for improved patient care. Challenges include data standardisation in physiotherapy and IT infrastructure issues in radiology, highlighting the need for whole-system innovation and…
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Our World in Data is an incredible website
https://ourworldindata.org/ “Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on…. The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems accessible and understandable.” Here’s the page on…
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Sharing rejections…
in ScholarshipI’m about to post three pieces of work that I submitted for presentation at the 2023 AMEE conference, all of which were rejected. I have two reasons for sharing these rejections: And maybe it’s also worth adding that rejection need not equal failure, if the work being rejected was a stepping stone to something else.…
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On the poor performance of AI models during the pandemic
Heaven, W.D. (2021). Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. MIT Technology Review. In the end, many hundreds of predictive tools were developed. None of them made a real difference, and some were potentially harmful. That’s the damning conclusion of multiple studies published in the last few months.…
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Comment: For a Longer, Healthier Life, Share Your Data
There are a number of overlapping reasons it is difficult to build large health data sets that are representative of our population. One is that the data is spread out across thousands of doctors’ offices and hospitals, many of which use different electronic health record systems. It’s hard to extract records from these systems, and…
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Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents. This link includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve taken on…
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Delete All Your Apps
in TechnologyA good question to ask yourself when evaluating your apps is “why does this app exist?” If it exists because it costs money to buy, or because it’s the free app extension of a service that costs money, then it is more likely to be able to sustain itself without harvesting and selling your data.…
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Split learning for health: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw patient data
Can health entities collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing sensitive raw data? This paper proposes several configurations of a distributed deep learning method called SplitNN to facilitate such collaborations. SplitNN does not share raw data or model details with collaborating institutions. The proposed configurations of splitNN cater to practical settings of i) entities holding…
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Medical data: who owns it and what can be done to it?
…most states in the US do not have law to confer specific ownership of medical data to patients, while others put the rights on hospitals and physicians. Of all, only New Hampshire allows patients to legally own their medical records. Source: Medical data: who owns it and what can be done to it? A short…
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Mozilla’s Common Voice project
Any high-quality speech-to-text engines require thousands of hours of voice data to train them, but publicly available voice data is very limited and the cost of commercial datasets is exorbitant. This prompted the question, how might we collect large quantities of voice data for Open Source machine learning? Source: Branson, M. (2018). We’re intentionally designing…
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Ontario is trying a wild experiment: Opening access to its residents’ health data
This has led companies interested in applying AI to healthcare to find different ways to scoop up as much data as possible. Google partnered with Stanford and Chicago university hospitals to collect 46 billion data points on patient visits. Verily, also owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is recruiting 10,000 people for its own long-term…
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How to ensure safety for medical artificial intelligence
When we think of AI, we are naturally drawn to its power to transform diagnosis and treatment planning and weigh up its potential by comparing AI capabilities to those of humans. We have yet, however, to look at AI seriously through the lens of patient safety. What new risks do these technologies bring to patients,…
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Fairness matters: Promoting pride and respect with AI
We’re creating an open dataset that collects diverse statements from the LGBTIQ+ community, such as “I’m gay and I’m proud to be out” or “I’m a fit, happy lesbian that has just retired from a wonderful career” to help reclaim positive identity labels. These statements from the LGBTIQ+ community and their supporters will be made…
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Separating the Art of Medicine from Artificial Intelligence
in AIWriting a radiology report is an extreme form of data compression — you are converting around 2 megabytes of data into a few bytes, in effect performing lossy compression with a huge compressive ratio. Source: Separating the Art of Medicine from Artificial Intelligence For me, there were a few useful takeaways from this article. The first is…
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You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information
We spend a lot of time focusing on the content of messaging systems as a means of identifying people but it looks like the metadata encoded alongside the content may be just as important when it comes to de-anonymising the data. This wasn’t always a problem because it’s hard to analyse multivariate relationships in large…