by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data
The All of Us Program, part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, is currently beta testing and will be ramping up in 2018. So what is it? Basically, it is a program which intends to develop a cohort of over 1 million participants to track and correlate various...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Google
Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires three things to work. High processing speed. Large amounts of data storage. Large amounts of data collection. The first two are localized technology innovations. These are done in the confines of labs, both public and private,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Health, Healthcare 3.0, Social Media
For most people, most of the time, digital technology is unhealthy. By most people, I mean 95% of adults. If I meant children, it would be 99%. By most of the time, I mean 99%. By digital technology, I mean 1.0 technology – which includes TV, 2.0 technology...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare 3.0, Healthcare Ethics
Do you have the right to share your DNA with someone else? Most people would initially say yes. In fact, most people would say that it is you, and only you, who has the right to share your DNA. Certainly if you consider DNA as a medical test, this feels right. You...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare 3.0, Healthcare Ethics
Moonshot is a term you will occasionally hear used in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. If you ever hear it in a discussion about AI in Healthcare, take note. It’s a red flag. You see, although ”moonshot” refers to a large-scale project – just...
