The Digital Health Report | Friday Digital Health Digest
News on Artificial Intelligence, biotechnology and more
"Inspiring the next generation of healthcare professionals."
Welcome to another edition of The Digital Health Report.
The last article we published about AI and Healthcare reached many, and we received some very interesting and encouraging comments.
And fortunately, we will focus on AI and Healthcare in the coming weeks [and even months].
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This edition is a curated list of some of the most interesting digital health stories, news and reports, from the application of AI in healthcare—to healthcare innovation and creativity, amazing medical devices, exciting biotechnology innovations and more.
"Artificial Intelligence Is Infiltrating Healthcare. We Shouldn't Let It Make All The Decisions"
"As these technologies begin to infiltrate healthcare settings, researchers say we're seeing a rise in what's known as AI paternalism. Paternalism in medicine has been problematic since the dawn of the profession. But now, doctors may be inclined to trust AI at the expense of a patient's own lived experiences, as well as their own clinical judgment."
Solving Assistive Listening Challenges With Medical Devices
"One benefit of an assistive listening system is that it helps curtail background noise, allowing individuals to better access the sound source they want to hear, whether it is a speaker at a convention or a person at a service counter."
"Patient Wisdom Should Be Incorporated Into Health AI To Avoid Algorithmic Paternalism"
AI is getting better. Even better than many clinicians. However, there are strong debates about how much trust we should place in AI's “opinions or plans”. The use of AI in healthcare is still in its infancy stages. We still have a very long way to go.
"How AI And Facial Recognition Could Spot Stroke And Other Diseases"
"Patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital who are suspected of having a stroke might get an unusual request from physicians: Can we film your face? The doctors' goal is to identify stroke patients by facial characteristics instead of waiting for brain scans or blood tests, helping speed both treatment and recovery."
Big Tech's Guide To Talking About AI Ethics
"AI researchers often say good machine learning is really more art than science. The same could be said for effective public relations. Selecting the right words to strike a positive tone or reframe the conversation about AI is a delicate task: done well, it can strengthen one's brand image, but done poorly, it can trigger an even greater backlash."
The First Babies Conceived With A Sperm-injecting Robot Have Been Born | Biotechnology [$]
"Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they'd designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where they put the instrument back together, assembling a microscope, a mechanized needle, a tiny petri dish, and a laptop.
Then one of the engineers, with no real experience in fertility medicine, used a Sony PlayStation 5 controller to position a robotic needle. Eyeing a human egg through a camera, it then moved forward on its own, penetrating the egg and dropping off a single sperm cell. Altogether, the robot was used to fertilize more than a dozen eggs.
The result of the procedures say the researchers, were healthy embryos—and now two baby girls, who they claim are the first people born after fertilization by a 'robot’."
Sam Altman Invested $180 Million Into A Company Trying To Delay Death | Biotechnology [$]
It looks like science may know no limits. Scientists are dabbling deeper into unchartered territories, from trying to use gene-editing tools to change the human genome to creating external wombs that can house human babies and whatsoever you watched in one of those crazy sci-fi movies. It's all happening. And now, they are trying to delay death. They want us to live longer lives. Soon, these guys will tell us they want to find the key to immortality.
More Than 200 People Have Been Treated With Experimental CRISPR Therapies | Biotechnology [$]
There's so much ethical battle around using CRISPR technologies to edit the human genome. Though this super-advanced technology is still experimental, a couple of people have nonetheless benefited from it.
About The Digital Health Report By Carecode Digital Health Hub
Empowering healthcare professionals [especially in Africa] with digital health knowledge is a big part of our mission at Carecode Digital Health Hub.
We believe healthcare professionals should be at the forefront of the digital health revolution, not just engineers, investors and big players.
And they can only dominate the front if they can access the right knowledge.
The Digital Health Report strives to provide healthcare professionals with the right knowledge about trends in the digital health ecosystem.
Curated content, reports, news, analyses, and opinion articles by guest writers and our writers and editors, are featured in the Digital Health Report.
We currently organise a yearly digital health bootcamp for healthcare professionals who want to migrate into the tech ecosystem or obtain knowledge that will position them for the future of healthcare.
Preparation for this year's edition is underway, and we are working hard to ensure it's better than the last edition.
In addition, we are planning a series of webinars/virtual events on AI & Healthcare. We will talk about how AI is revolutionalising healthcare, the prospects, and how we can position ourselves to remain useful.
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