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Fully informed consent must be respected, especially in the age of AI
By Todd Kelsey | Oct 03, 2023
This part of an AI governance series, which began with data handling, focuses on informed consent, which must legally be obtained from users but, too often, companies follow the letter of the law, not the spirit, says Benedictine University applied AI researcher Prof Todd Kelsey.
AI is humanity’s best chance to even the climate playing field
The world is likely to miss its target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures, with potentially serious consequences. Business as usual is not an option, which means that AI must play a big role for humanity to avoid the worst of climate change.
Sepsis and machine learning-driven clinical decision support tools
ML may augment clinical support for potentially deadly immune reactions due to sepsis. To devise, test, and implement clinical support tools in clinical practice is arduous, but common denominators from successful use may apply to other severe conditions. Medical and analytics researcher Matthew Marcetich reports.
ChiefAIOfficer.com underscores the necessity of a head of AI
Many companies have CEOs, CFOs, and COOs, but for them to have also chief AI officers is equally important nowadays. This is true above all because most companies report they have not yet been able to fully exploit the benefits of AI. Tech writer Priya Dialani elaborates.
Mercedes-Benz case study illustrates the impact of 5G and B5G on AVs
5G technology is now ubiquitous, but its applications extend beyond mobile networks. AVs are one example and 5G and its successors will be a big reason why if they ever become mainstream, says Purva Joshi, a PhD candidate in Healthtech at the University of Pisa.
Ethics and AI in medicine: Essentials every modern doctor should know
This second in a two-part series covers the most important considerations that doctors and other medical professionals should be aware of as AI and other new tech increasingly integrate into the healthcare terrain. AI and ML engineer and medical doctor Sahika Betul Yayli lays it out in plain terms.
ChatGPT comes into its own as used in physical therapy applicationsChatGPT’s strengths and flaws have drawn all eyes, but physical therapy is oft ignored despite being one of its more successful applications, says Vanessa Klotzman, a Software Engineering PhD candidate at the University of California specializing in ML and healthcare informatics.
Has the concept of the metaverse failed, or is it still too early to tell?This, the fourth in an article series titled Life and Crime in the Metaverse, examines the metaverse today and the question of whether it will ever reach its potential. Some already view it as a failure, but it could just be a steppingstone to something bigger and better.
AI supercharges biomarker-driven clinical trials, raises accuracy, success
Clinical trials are key in testing new treatments and their suitability for widespread use. AI is already making drug discovery cheaper and more efficient, and is now boosting clinical trials’ success. Pharma analyst and BiopharmaTrend.com co-founder Andrii Buvailo reports.
Generative AI helps data engineering processes, productivity, innovation
Many people are concerned about the potential threat that generative AI poses to their livelihoods, but for data engineering it has already proven to be a boon by raising levels of productivity and innovation and helping data engineers do their jobs better.
AI-aided diagnosis, treatment bring a ray of hope to ADHD sufferers
ADHD is reluctantly acknowledged in children, but is still stigmatized in adults. Rising numbers of victims now find themselves battling this disorder in today’s digital world, but AI may now offer new glimmers of encouragement, reports AI and Big Data journalist Disha Ganguli.
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Governance
Brazil’s burgeoning inland cities offer rich digital health pickings
The hardships of providing healthcare services in a socioeconomically limited area can be key to unlocking the value of innovative solutions, and Northeast Brazil’s Pernambuco is an informative case study in this regard, says radiologist and healthcare exec Dr Gustavo Meirelles.
Governance
Data handling is a key but often overlooked part of governance
This first in a three-part series on topics of data governance discusses handling - which gains in importance as the reams of data generated, gathered, and analyzed rise. Prof Todd Kelsey of Benedictine University researches applied AI and its emerging business/governance models.
Governance
New blueprint guides Argentina’s first steps toward ethical, responsible AI
AI and Argentina rarely appear in the same headline, but the Inter-American Development Bank and country are crafting a national strategy to safely exploit the tech, reports Gonzalo Benetti Hernández, former project lead at APOSTEAR, an initiative to close the low-income digital divide.
Governance
India’s AI governance trajectory to influence the whole world
India’s AI governance is ever more influential worldwide in step with its status as the fastest-growing major economy. The most populous nation must now decide how much regulation is too much, or it risks stifling innovation, explains ex-Harvard Medical fellow Dr Rohitashva Agrawal.
Cognition
Ethics and AI in medicine: Essentials every modern doctor should know
This second in a two-part series covers the most important considerations that doctors and other medical professionals should be aware of as AI and other new tech increasingly integrate into the healthcare terrain. AI and ML engineer and medical doctor Sahika Betul Yayli lays it out in plain terms.
Cognition
What do doctors really need to know about ethical considerations of AI?
AI use poses an battery of ethical questions, although trying to address them is daunting even for professionals who work with the tech every day. AI and ML engineer Sahika Betul Yayli lays out practical guidelines for reference in this first in a two-part series.
Cognition
Patenting AI works is often a difficult - and daunting - task
Industry and applied research must be keenly aware of how to devise a strategy to shield their innovations, and this indeed applies to AI. AI expert Prof Patrick Glauner sets up the high hurdles those seeking to patent inventions that include AI or are generated by it must clear.
Cognition
The Agile Leadership Framework™ gives AI ethics leaders invaluable skills
This is the first in a series on the Agile Leadership Framework™, a course on leadership for AI ethics in healthcare and pharmaceutical industry management. Author Dr Frank Lee Harper, Jr introduces the course here and illustrates why it is so invaluable in today’s world.
Pandemic
How different countries leveraged the power of AI to navigate COVID-19
This first part of a series explores how AI helped the world weather COVID-19 and at least partially cushion its impact. While the pandemic exposed many shortcomings, it also shed light on future improvements. Biomedical engineer and med-tech innovator Anjali Rajan presents a glimpse into popular AI applications in pandemic management deployed by five countries.
Pandemic
The COVID-19 Calculator
With the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with seemingly ever-changing recommendations, restrictions, and government guidance, trying to assess one’s own personal level of risk at any given time or location can be confusing. Now, with the development of the COVID-19 calculator, people finally have a tool to cut through all the uncertainty and determine their own risk of infection accurately and flexibly.
Pandemic
Experts Claim CT Scans For COVID-19 Diagnosis is Flawed
As the novel coronavirus evolved from epidemic to pandemic, early research suggested CT scans provided the best diagnosis for COVID-19. It turns out that the information was flawed. Data scientist and Google Scholar Dan Elton takes a closer look at the studies published.
Game-changers
AI is humanity’s best chance to even the climate playing field
The world is likely to miss its target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures, with potentially serious consequences. Business as usual is not an option, which means that AI must play a big role for humanity to avoid the worst of climate change.
Game-changers
AI digital twin ocean tech to help Nigeria cope with natural disasters
Nigeria is a vast, complex country facing myriad challenges, not the least of which are climate-induced and other natural disasters, but new tech is in the works that can help model and predict nature’s fury and cushion its impact. ML engineer Jacia Ebubechi gives the lowdown.
Game-changers
AI is changing the game and leading to more biotech breakthroughs
Ever since the integration of AI into biotech began in earnest, many advances have taken place at a pace that would have seemed impossible even just a few years ago. This promises to speed up drug development, lower costs, and raise efficiency, among other benefits.
Game-changers
AI can unleash nuclear medicine’s potential, boost it to new heights
Nuclear medicine uses radioactive material to diagnose and treat disease more precisely than traditional methods. Coupled with advancements in AI, it has a chance to make even more progress in the coming years, above all in India, states Harvard Med-trained Dr Rohitashva Agrawal.
Emerging markets
Projections for digital health investments in 2023 show interesting trends
Digital health technology, which includes wearables like the Apple Watch, has taken off in recent years, making it an attractive option for investors. Moh Noori, founder and CEO of ScriptChain Health, takes a look at current trends and where things might be headed next.
Emerging markets
AI deployment is changing how business works in every industry
Most people interact with various forms of AI every day, though often in unnoticed ways. While there is much talk about AI’s potential, many less glamorous forms of the technology are already making their impact felt and have become indispensable for nearly all businesses.
Emerging markets
Corporate responsibility must be updated, redefined for the AI age
Many companies have not updated their corporate responsibilities for a while, though as AI becomes an increasingly integral part of their work, it is time for them to do this and let people know what actions they are taking to ensure their safe use of this technology.
Emerging markets
The Hollywood writers’ AI struggle is in truth everyone’s fight
Hollywood writers are currently staging a strike in protest at the disruptive way AI is being used, mostly because it threatens to upend their livelihoods. However, a closer look reveals that this issue has implications far beyond the movie and entertainment industry.
Domain knowledge
Sepsis and machine learning-driven clinical decision support tools
ML may augment clinical support for potentially deadly immune reactions due to sepsis. To devise, test, and implement clinical support tools in clinical practice is arduous, but common denominators from successful use may apply to other severe conditions. Medical and analytics researcher Matthew Marcetich reports.
Domain knowledge
Inclusion, accessibility are indispensable for healthtech’s success
Healthtech is now more than a fad. Apps and wearables are just the start: Healthtech can potentially improve health for a huge range of people, but equal access is key, says Marketing and Commercialization Prof Marzena Nieroda of the UCL Global Business School for Health, London.
Domain knowledge
Scientists wield single-cell sequencing, ML data reduction to combat cancer
Single-cell RNA sequencing is a mighty weapon in cancer research that maps cell types and states, both individually and in clusters. ML then pares down the ensuing reams of data for ease of analysis. ML genetic and healthcare data specialist Dr Sara Moein explains their workings.
Domain knowledge
To see or not to see, that is the question of AI in radiology
AI should not make key decisions unsupervised. It does subtly prompt human decisions and this often goes unnoticed in radiology, notes Neuroradiology Prof Felipe Kitamura, Stanford AIMI scholar, Mayo Clinic visiting professor, and RSNA Machine Learning Steering Committee member.
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Community
Brazil’s burgeoning inland cities offer rich digital health pickings
The hardships of providing healthcare services in a socioeconomically limited area can be key to unlocking the value of innovative solutions, and Northeast Brazil’s Pernambuco is an informative case study in this regard, says radiologist and healthcare exec Dr Gustavo Meirelles.
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Aug 31, 2023
Data handling is a key but often overlooked part of governance
This first in a three-part series on topics of data governance discusses handling - which gains in importance as the reams of data generated, gathered, and analyzed rise. Prof Todd Kelsey of Benedictine University researches applied AI and its emerging business/governance models.
|
Aug 23, 2023
New blueprint guides Argentina’s first steps toward ethical, responsible AI
AI and Argentina rarely appear in the same headline, but the Inter-American Development Bank and country are crafting a national strategy to safely exploit the tech, reports Gonzalo Benetti Hernández, former project lead at APOSTEAR, an initiative to close the low-income digital divide.
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Aug 02, 2023
India’s AI governance trajectory to influence the whole world
India’s AI governance is ever more influential worldwide in step with its status as the fastest-growing major economy. The most populous nation must now decide how much regulation is too much, or it risks stifling innovation, explains ex-Harvard Medical fellow Dr Rohitashva Agrawal.
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May 29, 2023
Ethics and AI in medicine: Essentials every modern doctor should know
This second in a two-part series covers the most important considerations that doctors and other medical professionals should be aware of as AI and other new tech increasingly integrate into the healthcare terrain. AI and ML engineer and medical doctor Sahika Betul Yayli lays it out in plain terms.
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Sep 26, 2023
What do doctors really need to know about ethical considerations of AI?
AI use poses an battery of ethical questions, although trying to address them is daunting even for professionals who work with the tech every day. AI and ML engineer Sahika Betul Yayli lays out practical guidelines for reference in this first in a two-part series.
|
Sep 19, 2023
Patenting AI works is often a difficult - and daunting - task
Industry and applied research must be keenly aware of how to devise a strategy to shield their innovations, and this indeed applies to AI. AI expert Prof Patrick Glauner sets up the high hurdles those seeking to patent inventions that include AI or are generated by it must clear.
|
Sep 08, 2023
The Agile Leadership Framework™ gives AI ethics leaders invaluable skills
This is the first in a series on the Agile Leadership Framework™, a course on leadership for AI ethics in healthcare and pharmaceutical industry management. Author Dr Frank Lee Harper, Jr introduces the course here and illustrates why it is so invaluable in today’s world.
|
Sep 07, 2023
How different countries leveraged the power of AI to navigate COVID-19
This first part of a series explores how AI helped the world weather COVID-19 and at least partially cushion its impact. While the pandemic exposed many shortcomings, it also shed light on future improvements. Biomedical engineer and med-tech innovator Anjali Rajan presents a glimpse into popular AI applications in pandemic management deployed by five countries.
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Sep 18, 2023
The COVID-19 Calculator
With the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with seemingly ever-changing recommendations, restrictions, and government guidance, trying to assess one’s own personal level of risk at any given time or location can be confusing. Now, with the development of the COVID-19 calculator, people finally have a tool to cut through all the uncertainty and determine their own risk of infection accurately and flexibly.
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May 16, 2022
Experts Claim CT Scans For COVID-19 Diagnosis is Flawed
As the novel coronavirus evolved from epidemic to pandemic, early research suggested CT scans provided the best diagnosis for COVID-19. It turns out that the information was flawed. Data scientist and Google Scholar Dan Elton takes a closer look at the studies published.
|
Jan 10, 2022
AI is humanity’s best chance to even the climate playing field
The world is likely to miss its target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures, with potentially serious consequences. Business as usual is not an option, which means that AI must play a big role for humanity to avoid the worst of climate change.
|
Oct 02, 2023
AI digital twin ocean tech to help Nigeria cope with natural disasters
Nigeria is a vast, complex country facing myriad challenges, not the least of which are climate-induced and other natural disasters, but new tech is in the works that can help model and predict nature’s fury and cushion its impact. ML engineer Jacia Ebubechi gives the lowdown.
|
Sep 25, 2023
AI is changing the game and leading to more biotech breakthroughs
Ever since the integration of AI into biotech began in earnest, many advances have taken place at a pace that would have seemed impossible even just a few years ago. This promises to speed up drug development, lower costs, and raise efficiency, among other benefits.
|
Sep 14, 2023
AI can unleash nuclear medicine’s potential, boost it to new heights
Nuclear medicine uses radioactive material to diagnose and treat disease more precisely than traditional methods. Coupled with advancements in AI, it has a chance to make even more progress in the coming years, above all in India, states Harvard Med-trained Dr Rohitashva Agrawal.
|
Aug 29, 2023
Projections for digital health investments in 2023 show interesting trends
Digital health technology, which includes wearables like the Apple Watch, has taken off in recent years, making it an attractive option for investors. Moh Noori, founder and CEO of ScriptChain Health, takes a look at current trends and where things might be headed next.
|
Sep 15, 2023
AI deployment is changing how business works in every industry
Most people interact with various forms of AI every day, though often in unnoticed ways. While there is much talk about AI’s potential, many less glamorous forms of the technology are already making their impact felt and have become indispensable for nearly all businesses.
|
Sep 13, 2023
Corporate responsibility must be updated, redefined for the AI age
Many companies have not updated their corporate responsibilities for a while, though as AI becomes an increasingly integral part of their work, it is time for them to do this and let people know what actions they are taking to ensure their safe use of this technology.
|
Sep 04, 2023
The Hollywood writers’ AI struggle is in truth everyone’s fight
Hollywood writers are currently staging a strike in protest at the disruptive way AI is being used, mostly because it threatens to upend their livelihoods. However, a closer look reveals that this issue has implications far beyond the movie and entertainment industry.
|
Aug 18, 2023
Sepsis and machine learning-driven clinical decision support tools
ML may augment clinical support for potentially deadly immune reactions due to sepsis. To devise, test, and implement clinical support tools in clinical practice is arduous, but common denominators from successful use may apply to other severe conditions. Medical and analytics researcher Matthew Marcetich reports.
|
Sep 29, 2023
Inclusion, accessibility are indispensable for healthtech’s success
Healthtech is now more than a fad. Apps and wearables are just the start: Healthtech can potentially improve health for a huge range of people, but equal access is key, says Marketing and Commercialization Prof Marzena Nieroda of the UCL Global Business School for Health, London.
|
Aug 15, 2023
Scientists wield single-cell sequencing, ML data reduction to combat cancer
Single-cell RNA sequencing is a mighty weapon in cancer research that maps cell types and states, both individually and in clusters. ML then pares down the ensuing reams of data for ease of analysis. ML genetic and healthcare data specialist Dr Sara Moein explains their workings.
|
Aug 03, 2023
To see or not to see, that is the question of AI in radiology
AI should not make key decisions unsupervised. It does subtly prompt human decisions and this often goes unnoticed in radiology, notes Neuroradiology Prof Felipe Kitamura, Stanford AIMI scholar, Mayo Clinic visiting professor, and RSNA Machine Learning Steering Committee member.
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Jul 27, 2023
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