How AI will change your health-care experience
7 months ago

How AI will change your health-care experience

The Economist  

Listen to this podcast Your browser does not support the <audio> element. A rtificial intelligence is already making its mark in health care—but new, bigger, models promise to improve how patients access services, help doctors spot diseases faster and transform how medical research is done. In the first of two episodes on the potential of AI in health care, we ask: how will patients benefit from the technology behind Chat GPT? Contributors: Natasha Loder, The Economist‘s health editor; Gerald Lip of NHS Grampian; Peter Kecskemethy of Kheiron Medical; Pranav Rajpurkar of Harvard Medical School; Hugh Harvey of Hardian Health. Get a world of insights for 50% off—subscribe to Economist Podcasts+ For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.

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AI Revolutionising Healthcare in India
1 day ago

AI Revolutionising Healthcare in India

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: For understanding a patient’s illness, a doctor typically analyses several physiological indicators as well as reports generated following diagnostic tests. AI can also revolutionise preventive healthcare as it can identify patterns early, which will help the doctors to begin treatment at the earliest. AI uses various advanced technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, expert systems, and image …

AI can help slash healthcare spending by USD 360 billion
2 weeks, 3 days ago

AI can help slash healthcare spending by USD 360 billion

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Artificial intelligence -based healthcare breakthroughs that support and enhance the capabilities of healthcare practitioners have now become a necessity. Kalavathi G V, Executive Director & Head - Global Development Center, Siemens Healthineers, says AI has been predicted to save 5-10% of healthcare spending, which is about USD 200-360 billion. She told TNIE that reducing the administrative burden on frontline …

HHS’ AI plans come into view
1 month, 3 weeks ago

HHS’ AI plans come into view

Politico  

HHS’ AI plans come into view TECH MAZE Califf sees a big challenge in ensuring AI tools do what they say they'll do. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images At HLTH’s health care industry conference in Las Vegas, HHS officials said they’re developing a cross-agency strategic plan to regulate artificial intelligence in health care, aiming to balance its benefits and potential risks. …

AI, digital health soon in State for better healthcare, says Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu
3 months ago

AI, digital health soon in State for better healthcare, says Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu

The Hindu  

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said that the State government will soon introduce Artificial Intelligence and digital health to improve healthcare in the State, especially in maternal and child health. Mr. Naidu had a fruitful meeting with Prateek Sharma, president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and chairman of the AI Institute in America, and Rakesh Kalapala, director …

Doctors using ChatGPT to treat patients
3 months ago

Doctors using ChatGPT to treat patients

The Telegraph  

GPs have been using ChatGPT to treat patients, a Harvard study has warned. Researchers at the American university found one in five family doctors in the UK had used artificial intelligence tools while treating patients, despite a lack of regulation. The survey of 1,006 GPs found dozens were using AI to help diagnose conditions and find treatment options. Experts warned …

The computer will see you now! One in five GPs are using AI to make diagnoses and write notes despite risk of errors
3 months ago

The computer will see you now! One in five GPs are using AI to make diagnoses and write notes despite risk of errors

Daily Mail  

Family doctors are risking patient safety by relying on AI to help with diagnoses, a study has warned. One in five GPs admitted using programmes such as ChatGPT and Bing AI during clinical practice, despite no official guidance on how to work with them. One in five GPs are using AI to help with diagnoses, a study has found One …

Aspects of consciousness will remain unknown to AI
3 months, 1 week ago

Aspects of consciousness will remain unknown to AI

Times of India  

-By Pulkit Sharma We have been blessed with remarkable intelligence, visionary imagination and profound intuition. AI envisions modern machines that can think, process information and act in a way quite similar to human beings. These new-age machines will be able to receive manifold inputs from the outside world, compare them with enormous historical data, analyse them carefully, predict future outcomes, …

Healthcare professionals see potential in AI, but want more transparency, finds study
5 months, 1 week ago

Healthcare professionals see potential in AI, but want more transparency, finds study

The Hindu  

Healthcare professionals including researchers and clinicians see AI having the greatest potential in accelerating knowledge discovery, increasing research output, and saving costs. In India healthcare professionals also expressed concerns on overreliance on AI, with : 82% of doctors in India expressing concern that physicians will become overly reliant on AI for clinical decisions. Transparency is key Though healthcare professionals see …

AI, biotech seen transforming healthcare
7 months, 1 week ago

AI, biotech seen transforming healthcare

China Daily  

Sean Shan, senior vice-president of Takeda, introduces the company's digital transformation over the past years at the 2023 China International Import Expo in Shanghai in November. For example, when AI-enabled technology platforms are docked with huiminbao — a commercial healthcare insurance that supplements public healthcare insurance — patients no longer need to jump through hoops to process claims. By matching …

Artificial intelligence and health care
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Artificial intelligence and health care

Hindustan Times  

The integration of Artificial intelligence in health care has ushered in a new era of innovation and efficiency. The use of AI-powered telehealth platforms in telemedicine and remote consultations has the potential to decrease patient travel time and health care facility utilisation by facilitating virtual consultations. Those who reside in remote locations or who experience stigma related to mental health …

AI can play a life-saving role in medical diagnosis and public welfare says Madhumita Murgia, journalist and author
10 months ago

AI can play a life-saving role in medical diagnosis and public welfare says Madhumita Murgia, journalist and author

The Hindu  

In the past year, there has been a widespread, wobbly feeling of the ground shifting beneath our feet. And will so-called knowledge workers such as lawyers, journalists, consultants and creative professionals still have work in a few years’ time, when their jobs could be completed by generative AI to a good enough standard? The outputs of AI software today can …

AI may not take your job away but it will make you work differently, say experts
1 year, 2 months ago

AI may not take your job away but it will make you work differently, say experts

India Today  

At Imagine 2023, hosted by Automation Anywhere, one question that most attendees have is this: How will AI, and particularly Generative AI, will impact the way we work and will it lead to job losses. For example, designers could use AI to enhance their creative processes or healthcare workers could simply automate a lot of processes and spend more time …

Care to consult Dr AI?
1 year, 5 months ago

Care to consult Dr AI?

Hindustan Times  

Our eyes are windows to the heart. To know its impact on health care workers and patients, we speak to experts: This AI technique could eliminate the need to have a long series of conventional tests and scans. Voice Services for a more efficient, voice-driven workflow and Maya, a voice AI powered OPD assistant for healthcare professionals,” says the co-founder …

Experts hail AI in health care
1 year, 5 months ago

Experts hail AI in health care

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Experts in medical sciences hailed the role of artificial intelligence in revolutionising the field of medicine and treatments, at the fifth edition of an event titled IMA-TSCON at AIG Hospitals on Saturday. Prof. Joseph Sung, senior vice president and dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, was among the dignitaries present at the IMA-Hyderabad North …

Further uses of AI in the NHS are ‘on the horizon’, says chief
1 year, 6 months ago

Further uses of AI in the NHS are ‘on the horizon’, says chief

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As a national health service, we are in prime position to be able to …

Feeling the pulse with Doctor AI
1 year, 6 months ago

Feeling the pulse with Doctor AI

The Hindu  

The best way to predict the future is to invent it and the future so invented is feared by the very person who invented it! Internet of Medical Things is doing wonders in its application in remote patient monitoring and wearable devices such as continuous automated blood sugar-level monitors and insulin infusion pumps, which deliver timely doses of insulin to …

AI may be on its way to your doctor’s office, but it’s not ready to see patients
1 year, 7 months ago

AI may be on its way to your doctor’s office, but it’s not ready to see patients

LA Times  

What use could healthcare have for someone who makes things up, can’t keep a secret, doesn’t really know anything, and, when speaking, simply fills in the next word based on what’s come before? The companies want their AI to take notes for physicians and give them second opinions — assuming they can keep the intelligence from “hallucinating” or, for that …

Mint Explainer: What are the promises and perils of AI in health?
1 year, 8 months ago

Mint Explainer: What are the promises and perils of AI in health?

Live Mint  

The Indian Council of Medical Research recently released broad ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence – the talk of the town of late – in healthcare. Wysa, a mental-health startup, uses an AI-based chatbot to help users manage their mental health, using cognitive behaviour therapy techniques and on-demand support. AI systems will not just have to be transparent …

ChatGPT has the power to change healthcare: Report
1 year, 8 months ago

ChatGPT has the power to change healthcare: Report

India TV News  

New research has surfaced that states that OpenAI's ChatGPT, is capable to write original prose and chat with human fluency. In an official statement Tina Deng, Principal Medical Devices Analyst at GlobalData said, "ChatGPT can be used to assist doctors with bureaucratic tasks such as writing patient letters so doctors can spend more time on patient interaction. It can further …

ICMR Studies Impact of AI-powered ChatGPT on Medical Research, Starts Drafting 'Ethical Guidelines'
1 year, 9 months ago

ICMR Studies Impact of AI-powered ChatGPT on Medical Research, Starts Drafting 'Ethical Guidelines'

News 18  

India’s apex medical research institution – Indian Council of Medical Research – is busy understanding the impact of AI-run applications like ChatGPT on health research and is already forming “ethical guidelines” for its use. “We are already preparing ethical guidelines for the use of AI in health research.” The official hinted at a meeting of the committee of ethical members …

The AI doctor will see you now: ChatGPT passes gold-standard US medical exam
1 year, 10 months ago

The AI doctor will see you now: ChatGPT passes gold-standard US medical exam

Daily Mail  

ChatGPT has passed the gold-standard exam required to practice medicine in the US - amid rising concerns AI could put white-collar workers out of jobs. Researchers from tech company AnsibleHealth who did the study said: 'Reaching the passing score for this notoriously difficult expert exam, and doing so without any human reinforcement, marks a notable milestone in clinical AI maturation.' …

At the intersection of medicine and technology, an Artificial Intelligence tool to assist doctors
1 year, 10 months ago

At the intersection of medicine and technology, an Artificial Intelligence tool to assist doctors

The Hindu  

In the era of ChatGPT and at a time when the conjunction between technology and medicine is alive and bristling with innovation, it is hardly surprising that Artificial Intelligence has come to the rescue of the physician. If ChatGPT mimics actual conversations, intelligently, then Apollo Hospital’s Clinical Intelligence Engine is designed to mimic a doctor, serve as a physician’s assistant …

Health Care Trends of 2022 to Look Forward to This Year
2 years, 10 months ago

Health Care Trends of 2022 to Look Forward to This Year

News 18  

In the past two years, the whole way how you see the health care world has changed. Health care has evolved and there are new technologies coming every day that are proven to be very helpful for healthcare workers and people worldwide. Here are some of the trending healthcare technologies that you need to be aware of Health cloud Health …

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