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AI is intersecting healthcare at every level of healthcare, from patient care to hospital workflow efficiency. The traditional healthcare delivery model is moving from the occasional clinic visit to care at home, 24/7. While there are many opportunities, this new world also comes with many risks, as criminals have access to the same technology advancements that legitimate businesses access.

Wireless, connected medical devices including CGMs, blood pressure monitors, pacemakers, and EKGs can now track patient data continuously. Many use AI to analyze and alert the healthcare team when there’s a problem. While these devices are a game changer for patient care, they also provide hackers a "back door" to patient records. Implanted devices like pacemakers, especially ones that are 5-10 years old, may lack the encryption and authentication needed today, making them easy targets.

Because the healthcare system is so interconnected, there are many opportunities for bad actors to exploit weaknesses which could lead to significant harm and costs. In February of 2024, a ransomware cyber attack crippled Change Healthcare. The attack on this one company caused significant financial strain and disruption across the industry, including disrupted payments, insurance claims, prior authorizations, and prescriptions.

While many companies are focusing on training generative AI models using large data sets, there are also risks that hackers can train models on adversarial big data to bypass security measures or alter patient records. Reaching the full potential of AI while ensuring patient safety, privacy, and trust should be a number one concern across the entire healthcare industry. Read Less ^

Large Language Models such as GPT have a significant potential to revolutionize healthcare. GPT-3, ChatGPT, and GPT-4 are autoregressive language models that use deep learning to generate human-like text in response to a query. Unlike traditional search engines, GPT can generate its own ideas, making it a powerful tool in healthcare. Read More >

The applications of LLMs in healthcare are vast and include transcribing clinical notes, creating patient summaries, managing administrative paperwork, billing, interacting with insurance, triaging patients using symptom checkers, and medication management and education.

Several startups, such as Nabla and Be My Eyes, have already integrated GPT into their software. Nabla, a paying customer of OpenAI since 2020, has launched the Nabla Copilot, which automatically transcribes and translates conversations during clinic visits, creates clinical notes and patient summaries, generates prescriptions, and can even interact with patients for follow-up appointments, all without human intervention.

Be My Eyes is a 7 year old startup that has already added GPT-4 to their software. Be My Eyes helps people with low-vision by using volunteers who can video chat with a patient to help them navigate their surroundings. For example, if someone with low-vision wants to know what's in the fridge, a volunteer can tell them over video. Now with GPT-4, the software uses contextual understanding to offer relevant assistance. When the individual opens the fridge, GPT-4 will identify everything in the fridge, read out expiration dates, and even suggest recipes using those specific ingredients - all in seconds.

The healthcare industry is undergoing a transformation with advancements in Vocal Biomarkers, Remote Patient Monitoring, Digital Therapeutics, Voice Recognition, Clinical Decision Support Tools, Virtual Reality, and Predictive Care are transforming the healthcare paradigm from occasional clinic visits to continuous, 24/7 care in daily life. The convergence of these data streams gives rise to Ambient Healthcare Computing: the ever-present healthcare assistant that monitors, analyzes, and provides the right interventions to the right person at the right time. This paradigm shift towards ambient computing promises to revolutionize healthcare, transforming it from a reactive, sick-care model to a proactive, continuous-care model. Read Less ^

This talk covers the technology shift in healthcare attracting the large corporations working in technology, computing, retail and the finance industries. With consumer facing companies, Apple & Amazon, both worth over $1T, they now have the power to change consumer behavior almost instantly. Include other giants with the power to shift consumers and businesses alike - Microsoft, Salesforce, Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, Samsung, JPM, IBM, Alphabet (Google) and many more, it is only a matter of time before your business is impacted. These companies have made their intentions clear: the world of healthcare needs disrupting, and they are the ones to do it. Read More >

Learn where some of the shifts are happening in healthcare delivery, patient experience, and healthcare consumer spending power and trends. These shifts provide opportunities for new revenue streams and services to offer your patients and customers. Get clear action items and ideas to thrive in this new world. Read Less ^

The $3.5T Healthcare industry is integrating advancing technologies, changing everything from diagnostics to the patient experience. Robin's expertise showcases how the convergence of accelerating technology will enable the healthcare consumer to be the key decision maker and ultimately the one responsible on the healthcare team. Read More >

Technologies covered can include sensors, point-of-care diagnostics, 3D printing, tissue engineering, data, networks, cloud, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, drones and robotics. These technologies are intersecting healthcare at an increasing rate, all fundamentally changing healthcare and allowing the patient to be in control of their own health. Read Less ^

The number 1 killer in the United States is organ failure. If problems like heart disease were treated with an organ transplant, it could save and improve millions of lives. Read More >

There have been a number of scientific breakthroughs in the past few years that will make an impact in organ transplants.  From the country's first drone delivered kidney that led to a successful transplant, to strides in preserving organs, we're already seeing a difference in organ transplants.

Tissue engineering is already being used for skin transplants. A heart the size of a cherry was successfully 3D printed in Israel. Liver and kidney assays have been grown in the lab for clinical trial drug testing and precision medicine - growing a patient's tumor in the lab to choose an oncology treatment.

When science has perfected and scaled tissue engineering and organ preservation, instead of repairing aging and diseased organs, the organ could be replaced with new one grown from the patient's own stem cells. Read Less ^