The Top 5 Digital Health Devices Making A Real Difference In A Healthy Lifestyle – The Medical Futurist Newsletter

Choosing the ones with practical benefits I am thrilled to share a pioneering venture — the launch of the world's first PhD doctoral program in medical futuristic studies at the University of Debrecen, my alma mater. After rigorous planning and groundwork, the journey has kick-started with the enrollment [of my first two PhD candidates](. I will be sharing various milestones as we progress through this exciting academic endeavor. I also delved into HeyGen's AI-based translation service, which remarkably not only translated my words but also aligned the lip movements on video, [check out the result]( wow. Additionally, our initial autumn [live Q&A last week was fruitful]( with so many great questions about generative AI. I hope you will find the newsletter useful! Best regards, Berci Bertalan Meskó, PhD The Medical Futurist [TOP 5 DIGITAL HEALTH DEVICES MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE IN A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In the digital health era, an abundance of devices promises to streamline our health and optimize every breath we take. For enthusiasts like me, it’s a realm of fascinating trials, rigorous testing, and delightful discoveries. While all devices had their moments, five stood out as champions in enhancing our everyday lives and bringing the most practical benefit. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Health is multifaceted, and with the right tools, we have an unprecedented opportunity to understand, manage, and optimize it like never before. [FINALLY, CHATGPT CAN NOW SEE, HEAR, AND SPEAK!]( --------------------------------------------------------------- OpenAI announced that they are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT to offer a new, more intuitive type of interface by allowing us to have a voice conversation or show ChatGPT what we’re talking about in the form of images. These are some of the features we discussed with Eric Topol, MD [in our paper in npj Digital Medicine](. Regulators must prepare for such future iterations of generative AI to make regulations and policies ready by the time the technology becomes widely accessible. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? This is a step towards multimodal large language models that healthcare desperately needs. [INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of how AI is revolutionizing the field of medicine and healthcare. It covers various AI applications, such as medical imaging analysis, diagnosis, drug discovery, patient monitoring, and personalized medicine. The course is self-paced, allowing you to learn at your own convenience, and the first 1.5 chapters are free, so you can decide if it is for you before committing. [ENROLL HERE]( [DRUG DISCOVERY ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Finnish researchers teamed up with industry and supercomputers to carry out one of the world’s largest virtual drug screens in which machine learning allowed for a 10-fold time reduction in the processing of 1.56 billion drug-like molecules! "Before applying artificial intelligence to accelerate the screening, the researchers first established a baseline: 1.56 billion drug-like molecules were evaluated against two pharmacologically relevant targets over almost six months with the help of the supercomputers and molecular docking. Indeed, with only 1% of the whole library docked and used as training data, the tool correctly identified 90% of the best-scoring compounds within less than ten days." [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? Our grandchildren may be shocked that drugs were once tested on humans and sometimes after a decade or so, the clinical trial was claimed to be unsuccessful. We now see this revolution unfolding. [AI MIGHT BE LISTENING DURING YOUR NEXT HEALTH APPOINTMENT]( --------------------------------------------------------------- "Digital health company Hint Health announced a product in collaboration with OpenAI that will allow doctors to record an appointment, automatically transcribe the notes from it and generate a summary that can be embedded directly in the patient's medical record." But, it's also important to accept this as you don't want to be cared for by burnt-out physicians. And their burnout usually comes from the burden of administration. [READ MORE]( [FDA ADVISERS DISCUSS FUTURE OF ‘ARTIFICIAL WOMB’ FOR HUMAN INFANTS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- "Independent advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration are meeting this week to discuss the regulations, ethics, and possibilities of creating an artificial womb to increase the chances that extremely premature babies would survive and without long-term health problems. " I applaud the FDA for discussing the potential ethical, regulatory and legal responsibilities of a given technology that doesn't exist yet. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? If the FDA advisors discuss the technology, it must be in the pipeline somewhere, so it seems the artifical womb might become a real thing. [HOW THE $4B INVESTMENT IN AI COMPANY ANTHROPIC IMPACTS HEALTHCARE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon announced that it would invest up to $4 billion in AI company Anthropic to compete with OpenAI's recent success in generative AI. "We are already seeing many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers employ Anthropic's Claude generative AI models via Amazon Bedrock to transform drug development and healthcare. (...) I'm equally excited about Anthropic's use of AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy future foundation models." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Tech giants spend billions of dollars trying to make sure they won't lag behind in the generative AI scene. MORE NEWS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE --------------------------------------------------------------- TOOTH BUDDY – [Japanese scientists developing drug to grow new teeth in humans]( WITH CHEST RADIOGRAPHS – [Fujitsu and iSurgery launch bone health promotion project for early detection of osteoporosis]( PROFILERS – [Yamaha Motors launches healthcare company focused on analyzing antibodies]( NOT ICKY – [Bodily Fluids As The Basis For Digital Health]( [color-forwardtofriend-48.png](mailto:berci@medicalfuturist.com) [color-facebook-48.png]( [color-youtube-48.png]( [color-linkedin-48.png]( [color-twitter-48.png]( [color-instagram-48.png]( © The Medical Futurist 2023 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Medical Futurist · Budapest · Budapest, Pest 1118 · Hungary