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Learning About AI, DeepMind and The NHS From AlphaGo, The Movie.

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare Ethics

To better understand  the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Humanity take a look at the movie AlphaGo on Netflix, the story of an artificial intelligence program created by Google’s company DeepMind. There is the drama of any contest – in...
My Physician Journey into Programming and Python

My Physician Journey into Programming and Python

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning, Python

As I mentioned several weeks ago, I am a doctor who is endeavoring to learn the programming language called Python. My reason for pursuing this, which sounds rational, goes something like this: 1. The future of healthcare is Artificial intelligence and Big Data. 2. To...

What Physicians Can Offer the Artificial Intelligence Developer Community 

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Health

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) penetrates healthcare more and more, it does pose the question: What can physicians offer? Certainly some AI approaches depend upon domain expertise, and physicians will contribute at  this level, but is there something more? AI is an...

Technology and the Problems Facing Healthcare

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Healthcare 3.0, Machine Learning

The problems facing healthcare are human problems. Although there are many brilliant and good people working in high tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, their technical brilliance does not necessarily extend to a deep understanding of...

Healthcare: From Data to Wisdom

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Healthcare 3.0

Data leads to information.; Information leads to knowledge; Knowledge leads to wisdom. At least that’s how it should work. As healthcare moves into the Healthcare 3.0 space, we are going to be seeing an increased use of technologies such as Artificial...

The Ethics of AI, Big Data and Healthcare: Thinking Outside of the Box

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Healthcare 3.0

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein. As one of the founders of Modern Physics, his approach to solving problems, at least as a scientist, clearly exemplified this. For example,...
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