by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Physician Career
Microsoft recently purchased the speech recognition software company Nuance (Microsoft completes acquisition of Nuance, ushering in a new era of outcomes-based AI) for 16 billion dollars. At first glance, this looks like a good thing for both healthcare and...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Big Data, EHR
I am not necessarily opposed to a healthcare institution acquiring high volumes of data from my electronic health record (EHR), even without my explicit consent. Data harvesting often results in public health benefits and sometimes results in patient population...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Blogging
The most important blog I wrote in February 2022 is The Personal Data Big Healthcare Wants From Job Applicants. We seriously underestimate how much corporations—including healthcare corporations—see us as data sources. We also underestimate their unshakable belief...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Healthcare Ethics, Physician Career
When applying for a healthcare job, I expect that acceptable data for a potential employer to collect would include such things as prior employment history, educational history, email address, etc. And I certainly believe in many healthcare jobs, background checks are...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Healthcare Ethics, Philosophy
In a recent New York Review of Books article by Jake Bernstein (Loopholes for Kleptocrats, referencing the books American Kleptocracy: How the US Created the Worlds Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History, by Casey Michel and The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Several years ago I was able to use IBM’s Watson Personality Insights to analyze my personality based on how I use Twitter (see IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence Analysis of My Personality). It contained both positives (You are philosophical: you are open to and...
