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Why Jeff Bezos was in a Super Bowl Commercial

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data

On Sunday, did you see Jeff Bezos in the his “Alexa” Super Bowl commercial? It was very good, and you can watch it at the bottom of the post: But it does raise one question: why was Jeff Bezos in it? He is worth over 100 billion dollars, so it is a safe...

The New Field of Data Ethics

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare 3.0, Social Media Ethics

Here is a quote taken from the 2016 Royal Society Publishing Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences paper What is Data Ethics: “…data ethics can be defined as the branch of ethics that studies and evaluates moral...

Google’s Deep Mind, Artificial Intelligence, and Your “Private” Medical Records

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Google, Healthcare 3.0, Social Media Ethics

I encourage physicians and healthcare executives to read the 2017 Health and Technology journal article: Google DeepMind and healthcare in an age of algorithms,  the cautionary tale of the behind the scenes (and somewhat questionable)  relationship between part of...

Artificial Intelligence, HIPPA, and The Problem of Privacy

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Pinterest, Social Media

As I attend AINextCon Seattle this week and listen to the speakers from organizations such as Microsoft,  Didi, Pinterest, or LinkedIn one theme comes out all the time:  the more data they have from more users, the better the results.  Now let me be clear here.  When...
Is Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Research Declining?

Is Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Research Declining?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare Revenue

Is the research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications within the healthcare beginning to taper down? Certainly looking at the graph above, the published research suggests this is the case, however this may just be a reflection of AI efforts within the...

Why I am Going to AI NEXTCon Seattle

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence

This week, about a mile from my home, one of the top Artificial Intelligence (AI) conferences on the West Coast is being held : AI NEXTCon Seattle. I’m excited because I’m going! This begs the question: why, as a physician, I am so excited about going?...
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