What ’ s Next For AI In Healthcare In 2023
We write tons of detailed articles about niche topics, for our seasoned audience. However, every now and then it is important to zoom out and just look at the big picture as well. Here we decided to provide a high-level outlook of what’s coming next for AI in healthcare, and hope it will be useful.  So let’s take a birds-eye view of what we can expect from AI in healthcare in the coming period. In this post, we will not discuss abstract principles but will instead focus on providing specific examples. By examining recent advancements and exploring potential future developments, we aim to provide a comprehen...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI adaptive algorithm digital health AI in healthcare AI in medicine ChatGPT MedPaLM ChatGPT in healthcare AI in drug discovery Source Type: blogs

16 Healthcare Companies That Already Integrated ChatGPT: Infographic
The advent of GPT-4, an advanced large language model, has opened up a plethora of opportunities in various industries, including healthcare. As I predicted a few months ago when the hype started, it was only a matter of time before healthcare companies started integrating these sophisticated language models into their services. The first significant integration came when Microsoft joined forces with Nuance, marking the first large tech player to openly commit to utilizing ChatGPT in real-world healthcare applications. In the short period since then, numerous other companies have followed suit, integrating GPT-4 into th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI in healthcare digital health ChatGPT large language models MedPaLM GPT-4 GPT in healthcare ChatGPT in healthcare Source Type: blogs

17 Healthcare Companies That Already Integrated ChatGPT: Infographic
The advent of GPT-4, an advanced large language model, has opened up a plethora of opportunities in various industries, including healthcare. As I predicted a few months ago when the hype started, it was only a matter of time before healthcare companies started integrating these sophisticated language models into their services. The first significant integration came when Microsoft joined forces with Nuance, marking the first large tech player to openly commit to utilizing ChatGPT in real-world healthcare applications. In the short period since then, numerous other companies have followed suit, integrating GPT-4 into th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine MedPaLM GPT-4 GPT in healthcare ChatGPT in healthcare AI AI in healthcare digital health large language models Source Type: blogs

Finally A Good Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor: Aktiia Bracelet Review
The digital health revolution has been lagging behind in at least one major field: blood pressure monitoring. For a very long time, there were no better solutions in the market than traditional cuffs. Even the first smartwatches (like the one I tested from Omron), were big and uncomfortable to wear. So it was time for companies to realise the future of BP monitoring lies in Photoplethysmography (PPG). PPG is a non-invasive optical technique used to measure blood volume changes in the microvascular bed of tissue. It works by shining a light onto the skin and then measuring the variations in light intensity that result fr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Aktiia review blood pressure wearable blood pressure monitor non-invasive blood pressure monitor blood pressure bracelet digital health sensors Source Type: blogs

Digital Front Doors: Unlocking Healthcare ’ s New Frontier
Digital front door solutions are a growing phenomenon in healthcare. The topic caught my attention a while ago when I stumbled upon a study discussing how a new concept – the digital front door – could address the challenges the primary care system faces in the UK. With my curiosity piqued, I decided to dive deeper into this topic. As this is a concept I have encountered increasingly often and one that’s changing the way we access healthcare services, I recently created a short video attempting to define this trend in less than one minute. But as this phenomenon will have profound effects on the future...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Healthcare Design imported digital front door digital front doors patient pathways Source Type: blogs

Preparing For AI-Driven Medicine: 6 Crucial Questions For Tomorrow ’ s Doctors
This article will discuss some critical questions that medical professionals must be able to answer in order to navigate the AI revolution successfully. 1. Do you know enough about AI? As a medical student or a young doctor, it is crucial to have a fundamental understanding of AI, its applications, and potential implications. The Medical Futurist’s paper, A short guide for medical professionals in the era of artificial intelligence provides a high-level overview of AI, its definitions, methods, levels, dangers, and advantages. To stay relevant in the evolving healthcare landscape, medical professionals shoul...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Medical education AI digital health Source Type: blogs

Beyond ChatGPT: What Does GPT-4 Add To Healthcare?
Dust has yet to settle on the ChatGPT hype, but OpenAI, the developer behind the artificial intelligence (AI) language model underpinning ChatGPT, has launched the next iteration of its model: GPT-4. Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://t.co/TwLFssyALF pic.twitter.com/lYWwPjZbSg— OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 14, 2023 OpenAI advertises its new AI model as being “more creative and collaborative than ever before” and “can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy”. The tool is already being adopted by organisations such as Be My Eyes...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare technology AI digital health Source Type: blogs

The 2023 Skin-Checking Apps Landscape: Infographic
The most useful skin-checking applications allow users to take pictures of their suspicious skin lesions, upload these pictures to a server, the images are first evaluated by an AI algorithm and the results will be later validated by a dermatologist. We introduced several already, check here or here.  Earlier we called these apps an emerging trend, and still stand by this statement. If you are looking for a signature digital health solution, these are great examples, as they: address an existing demand rely on already existing infrastructure from the patients’ side (e.g.: their mobile phones) provide ea...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones future Healthcare technology skin checking digital health Source Type: blogs

We Used Midjourney To Design Digital Health Technologies
Text-to-image AI generators like Midjourney, DALL-E or Stable Diffusion became popular and widely used in the past year. Although these algorithms have their limitations, feeding them with the right prompts can result in spectacular images. So much so that this one generated by Midjourney even won an art prize. This presents so many fascinating questions and generates fierce debate. I, for one, don’t believe AI will replace artists, just as I don’t believe it will replace doctors. You can go on and experiment with these tools to find out for yourself how extremely hard it is to make the algorithm draw a picture like...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Health Sensors & Trackers artificial intelligence Midjourney digital health Dall-e Stable diffusion digital health sensors digital health technologies Source Type: blogs

8 Ways To Impress Your Doctor In Digital Health
There’s an intense discussion on how healthcare workers could and should relate to the digital health revolution. We’ve done our fair share, writing tons of articles, like The 7 Must-Haves For The Doctor Of the 21st Century, or 5 AI Tools That Could Help Build A Medical Practice, and The Impact Of Digital Health Technologies On The Future Of Medical Specialties, not to mention 6 Potential Medical Use Cases For ChatGPT. And these are just a few recent examples from the many dozen posts on the topic. On the other hand, information on how to become a “digital patient” is difficult to find. Thus we decided to level ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: E-Patients empowered patients digital patient 21st century patients digital health for patients artificial intelligence Source Type: blogs

What ’s Next For ChatGPT In Healthcare?
You have probably heard that ChatGPT has recently passed business, law and medical exams, qualified as a level-3 coding engineer at Google (with a $180K starting salary!), outperformed most students in microbiology and checked a passable grade in a 12th-grade AP literature test.  Of course, better take these results with a pinch of salt. Although the algorithm indeed did reasonably well on the USMLE test, it was not a full-value assessment as all questions requiring visual assessment were removed. Pinch of salt or not, however, it is obvious how the capabilities of these large language models have been expanding...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Source Type: blogs

6 Healthcare Examples Of Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality
Lately, there has been a tendency in the tech world to adopt “new” realities in their midst. Meta has a branch dedicated to developing virtual reality (VR) hardware and software; earlier this year HTC unveiled its new augmented reality (AR) glasses; while Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch a mixed reality (MR) headset.  Collectively, VR, AR and MR fall under the umbrella term of extended reality (XR), which analysts believe holds the potential to be the next major computing platform. Such potentials have spillover effects into the medical field through digital health approaches, and healthcare practice is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Augmented Reality Virtual Reality MR XR VR AR mixed reality extended reality Source Type: blogs

The Secret Ways Healthcare AI Companies Might Use Your Personal Data
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good to know what happens to your data, it is especially relevant in healthcare settings and regarding health data. The rise of social media platforms signifies the beginning of a new era, one where individuals become valuable resources: providing tons of personal data that can be utilised for commercial purposes. But as the plethora of AI applications begins to enter our lives, we have to level up our games and become mu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI data privacy digital health data digital health privacy Source Type: blogs

Here Is What Even Healthcare AI Companies Do With Your Data
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good to know what happens to your data, it is especially relevant in healthcare settings and regarding health data. The rise of social media platforms signifies the beginning of a new era, one where individuals become valuable resources: providing tons of personal data that can be utilised for commercial purposes. But as the plethora of AI applications begins to enter our lives, we have to level up our games and become mu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine digital health privacy AI data privacy digital health data Source Type: blogs

5 Best Practices To Build A Future-Ready  Digital Health Company
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, and addressing real-life clinical needs might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also a rapidly expanding one where investments were heavily channelled during the pandemic. However, some estimate that 90% of digital health startups will go bust or be ‘acqui-hired’ within a few years of being founded. If digital health represents the future of medicine and healthcare, it is important to understand why this is the case.  We previously dissected the reasons why digital h...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones theranos study inves Source Type: blogs