AI-powered wearable "speaks" for people with vocal cord problems – The Medical Futurist Newsletter

Translates the muscle movements into audible speech Last week I received a [very special delivery from the YouTube HQ]( the award for passing 100K subscribers. And, as it was the week of milestones, my LinkedIn newsletter has just hit the 200K mark. Thank you for sharing the journey with me and The Medical Futurist team – I couldn't do it without your support. Meanwhile, after attending almost 1000 medical events, I [shared some thoughts]( on what makes a memorable and successful event. I [also tested a "Smart Rescue" asthma device]( - a compact, cap-like accessory. It goes beyond simple counting by prompting users when it's time to reorder their medication. I hope you will find the newsletter useful! Best regards, Berci Bertalan Meskó, PhD The Medical Futurist [SPEAKING WITHOUT VOCAL CORDS, THANKS TO A NEW AI-ASSISTED WEARABLE DEVICE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Bioengineers invented a thin (weighing only 7 grams), flexible device that adheres to the neck and translates the muscle movements of the larynx with the assistance of machine-learning technology - with nearly 95% accuracy - into audible speech. "The device is made up of two components: one detects and converts signals generated by muscle movements into high-fidelity, analyzable electrical signals; these electrical signals are then translated into speech signals using a machine-learning algorithm. The other turns those speech signals into the desired voice expression." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Next come the clinical trials, as well as enlarging the vocabulary of the device through machine learning. What a great technology! [SORA AND HEALTHCARE: REVOLUTIONISING HEALTHCARE WITH AI VIDEO GENERATION]( --------------------------------------------------------------- While Sora is not yet publicly available and other text-to-video models have yet to be applied in the healthcare setting, it is worth considering the potential of such technologies in the healthcare context. These tools will be excellent for patient education – among other use cases -, but present new challenges regarding privacy and credibility. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? The healthcare industry needs to be prepared to consider the opportunities of such tools but also to counter its challenges. [FUTUREPROOF YOURSELF WITH THE DIGITAL HEALTH COURSE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Are you looking for a friendly, easy-to-digest way to get up to speed regarding where healthcare is heading due to technological advancements? Dive in with our course. Don't worry if you don't know the first thing about it, this course is structured to guide you gently, but thoroughly toward a general understanding. Get comfortable with the new realities, you will benefit from it in your evolving career. [ENROLL HERE]( [CHINA UNVEILS CHATGPT-LIKE MEDICAL CHATBOT SERVICE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Hong Kong and China-based researchers developed a large language model to assist doctors in making medical diagnoses and treatments that could answer doctors' questions with up to 95% accuracy. "The chatbot, CARES Copilot 1.0, is built based on Meta's Llama 2 LLM. Trained using 100 GPUs from Huawei and Nvidia, it can process various data, including images, text, voice, video, MRI, CT scans, and ultrasound." [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? If they find a quick way of regulating it, it could be an early example of doctors benefitting from using LLMs. [DOCTORS ARE TURNING MEDICAL GENERATIVE AI INTO A BOOMING BUSINESS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Generative AI was the big hit during this year's HIMSS conference. But most news reports describe the story from the tech companies' perspectives. What really matters though is the perspective of physicians and whether they can use these services on the ground of evidence-based medicine. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? Only real use cases and clinical evidence can bring advanced technologies to the very practice of medicine. [HEAL: A FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH EQUITY ASSESSMENT OF MACHINE LEARNING]( --------------------------------------------------------------- "The HEAL framework enables a quantitative assessment of the likelihood that health AI technologies prioritize performance with respect to health disparities." They demonstrated how the framework could be used to assess this by using it on a dermatology model that was trained to classify 288 skin conditions. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Good achievement from Google: they define how health equity differs from equality, and provide a framework to improve the former. [NVIDIA ANNOUNCES AI-POWERED HEALTH CARE 'AGENTS' THAT OUTPERFORM NURSES — AND COST $9 AN HOUR]( --------------------------------------------------------------- NVIDIA teamed up with AI healthcare company Hippocratic AI (that recently raised a lot of money) to develop generative AI "agents" that not only outperform human nurses on video calls but cost a lot less per hour. "Hippocratic says its Constellation model outperformed nurses in identifying a medication's impact on lab values; in identifying condition-specific disallowed over-the-counter medications; in correctly comparing a lab value to a reference range; and in detecting toxic dosages of over-the-counter drugs." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Replacing nurses is simply not worth it, but replacing them with AI on video calls would definitely help fill in the gaps left by nurse shortages. 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