Tag: healthcare
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Generative AI in Healthcare
This presentation explores the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI in healthcare, balancing optimistic forecasts with practical considerations. Generative AI has quickly evolved beyond text prediction to encompass multimodal capabilities, with previously impossible tasks now becoming routine. The presentation emphasises that effective implementation depends on structured prompting that establishes clear contextual frameworks.
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An optimistic vision of a future through powerful AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s vision for beneficial AI development outlines five transformative areas where AI could revolutionise society within the next decade. Beyond typical tech industry hype, his essay presents a thoughtful exploration of both AI’s potential benefits and the intentional work needed to ensure these advances benefit everyone.
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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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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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Resource: Towards a curated library for AI in healthcare
I’ve started working on what will eventually become a curated library of resources that I’m using for my research on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on clinical practice. At the moment it’s just a public repository of the articles, podcasts, blog posts that I’ve read or listened to and then saved in…
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Article published – An introduction to machine learning for clinicians
It’s a nice coincidence that my article on machine learning for clinicians has been published at around the same time that my poster on a similar topic was presented at WCPT. I’m quite happy with this paper and think it offers a useful overview of the topic of machine learning that is specific to clinical…
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WCPT poster: Introduction to machine learning in healthcare
My poster and list of references for the WCPT 2019 conference in Geneva.
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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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The first AI approved to diagnose disease is tackling blindness in rural areas
There are any number of reasons why people don’t get medical care or don’t follow up on a referral to a specialist. They might not think they have a serious problem. They might lack time off work, reliable transportation, or health insurance. And those are problems AI alone can’t solve. Source: Mullin, E. (2018). The…
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Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | TED Talk
So if you think about it, wireless signals, they travel through space, they go through obstacles and walls and occlusions, and some of them, they reflect off our bodies, because our bodies are full of water, and some of these minute reflections, they come back. And if, just if, I had a device that can…
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An introduction to artificial intelligence in clinical practice and education
Two weeks ago I presented some of my thoughts on the implications of AI and machine learning in clinical practice and health professions education at the 2018 SAAHE conference. Here are the slides I used (20 slides for 20 seconds each) with a very brief description of each slide. This presentation is based on a…
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Ethics CPD lecture
As part of our commitment to continuing professional development (CPD) in South African healthcare, we’re required to accumulate 5 ethics credits every year. Yesterday I gave a presentation to the staff in our department in order to fulfill this requirement. It went quite well, although being my first time I felt pretty unprepared. I learnt a lot…
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SAAHE keynote – Improving health professions education to improve health (Bill Burdick)
I’m going to split my blog posts up according to the different sessions, just for ease of reference i.e. a few posts, rather than one very long one. Here are my notes from the first keynote of the day, from Professor Bill Burdick. If you don’t continue the momentum for change, you’re going to be…
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Giving students a voice in Physiotherapy Ethics
I’ve been going through some of the “Professional Ethics” assignments I received from our third year physiotherapy students, and wanted to share this one with you (with the students’ permission). It was written by Basil Buthelezi, and which I think really showcases the wonderful talents our students have, which we would never usually encounter because…
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Assessment in an outcomes based curriculum
I attended a seminar / short course on campus yesterday, presented by Prof. Chrissie Boughey from Rhodes University. She spoke about the role of assessment in curriculum development and the link between teaching and assessing. Here are the notes I took. Assessment is the most important factor in improving learning because we get back what…
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First article published
I just had my first research article published. It’s based mainly on the literature review I did for my Masters degree last year, with a few updates. It’s strange, but when I submitted it about 6 months ago, I thought it was a reasonable piece of work. Reading it now, I feel like taking it…
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Technology in the classroom: can we make it work?
I’ve been trying to think how to use technology to enhance both my teaching and my students’ learning and it’s proving more difficult than I’d initially thought. I like to think that laptops and internet access in every classroom give students real-time access to related content while they engage in meaningful discussion, but this will…