Matthew's Blog
The New Field of Data 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
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...
My Best Blogging Advice for Physicians
A blog post can be short if it clearly makes the point.
Physician: Too Busy to Blog? Then Blog While Walking.
As a physician, about the only thing I value more than time is my health, so I wanted to write a quick tip for physicians about how to combine these two values to maximize benefit. This tip requires one skill and three tools. The one skill is the ability to speak...
Artificial Intelligence, HIPPA, and The Problem of Privacy
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 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
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? It's certainly...
Healthcare 3.0 and Ethics
First, let's talk Web 3.0. Web 1.0 is the static webpage of the late 1990s. The website is simple a page, presenting information to you. Web 2.0 is the formation of community, circa 2007. It includes elements such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs. Here, as opposed to...
Medicine, Twitter and the Value of Play
Let me start here. We physicians don't get a lot of points for play (and Play’s cousin - Creativity) within the practice of medicine. Moms don't bring their 5 year old son in with severe strep throat to be placed on an antibiotic that hasn't been used before; They...