by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, EHR
Here’s an interesting article in Nature which was published in May 2018 that should be on the radar of any physician interested in Artificial Intelligence: “Scalable and accurate deep learning with electronic health records” This study, by analyzing the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Healthcare Ethics
We often think new technologies, such as AI and Big Data, are dehumanizing in the healthcare domain. We’re right. They are. But is dehumanization always a negative? Not necessarily. Consider the possibility that a facet of dehumanization is actually...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, Facebook, Healthcare Ethics
In the next few months, a lot is going to be learned about the relationship between Facebook, Cambridge Analytics, and the data of their users. The technical details will be interesting, as will observing the downfall of the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, or watching ...
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 | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Technology is value neutral. A pencil is inanimate. In of itself, it is neither good or bad. A car is inanimate. In of itself, it is nether good or bad. A nuclear reactors is inanimate. In of itself, it is neither good or bad. We don’t regulate pencils, but we do...
