The Role Of Digital Technologies In Aging And Health – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
I was delighted to read a scientific paper that goes beyond just detailing a complex topic and encourages us to broaden our horizons, imagine what the future of elderly care could hold and define our roles in shaping it.
We've also been busy last week and covered many bases of the AI-in-healthcare arena. From discussing how to regulate large language models to best serve medicine, to why AI is not likely to kill creativity and also published a video with 3 futuristic scenarios about future healthcare from picture-perfect to pessimistic.
"A vision of future home-centered geriatric care, powered by digital technologies and devices. A network of internet-connected sensors on the body and distributed around the home, monitors the health conditions of older adults and transmits rich dynamic data to cloud servers. The data are then analyzed by machine learning algorithms to coordinate with the remote caregiver and with autonomous wearable therapeutic devices toward optimal health care."
These technologies aren't here to replace the human touch, but to offer a sense of relief, to extend caregivers' reach and enhance their care when they can't be physically present.
Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, Bard or MedPaLM bring about unprecedented potential and challenges in healthcare and require a unique regulatory framework.
The frameworks will need to make a distinction between LLMs specifically trained on medical data and LLMs trained for non-medical purposes.
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A new study published in Nature revealed that Google's medical large language model (LLM) answered medically related questions with 92.6% accuracy.
"Answers were then put through human evaluations to assess comprehension, reasoning, factuality, and possible harm and bias. Flan-PaLM (its instruction-tuned variant) answers were also rated as potentially leading to harmful outcomes 29.7% of the time compared to 5.9% of the time for Med-PaLM. The inaccuracy of clinician-generated answers was similar to Med-PaLM at 5.7%."
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In this video, I explain 3 different scenarios for AI in healthcare. One is the total dream situation (if everything goes perfectly), one is a still optimistic scenario, and one is a pessimistic one - others might call it the realistic one.
Which one do you think will come true?
AI will take some jobs and will be able to do many "white collar" tasks instead of humans. But more creative humans will use AI more creatively, maintaining their edge.
The rapid development of generative AI is impressive, and yes, we need to adapt, but at the moment on its own, it only replaces sub-par creative professionals.
Full body scans are quite certainly not the future of preventive medicine and there is a good reason why the medical community would agree with me.
The future is not about measuring and analyzing every single thing in the human body and then try to find the needle in the data haystack, but to discover signs that could help either catch diseases early or prevent them from happening.
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1yThank you for sharing, Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD. Your insights are truly valuable. Aging at home is indeed the optimal choice for seniors, which can be made possible with healthcare technology and monitoring devices. These advancements have the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for the elderly, providing them with better care and support in the comfort of their own homes.
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1yThanks for Posting.
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1yWith over 80% of people over the age of 65 having two or more chronic conditions this makes so much sense. The challenge is to grow it at scale. If healthcare/insurance companies proactively started making the investment in patients with multiple care needs, it would do several things. It would increase quality of life for patients. It would actually increase number of touchpoints and billing opportunities. And it would most likely reduce boarding in hospitals since many of these patients are likely to use the ER regularly for treatment.
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1yGreat sharing