Can Fake Patient Data Drive AI in Healthcare?
Issue 1: CognitionX — Future Health — AI in Healthcare, Sport and Life Science
AI applied in the right way will advance and improve lives and meet some of our world’s greatest challenges from health to clean energy, climate change, food, security and poverty.
Shouldn’t we focus on those problems first? Shouldn’t we motivate our best and brightest to do just that? And shouldn’t we ensure that the application of AI will be an expression of the very highest ethical standards known to humankind.
Joanna Shields’ words at CogX 2018 captured the room. In terms of access, cost, efficiency and waste, health and well-being stand out as some of the great issues in society. Technology is an opportunity to change this.
The CognitionX Future Health briefing will collate and curate news each week on the impact of AI technologies on healthcare, sport and life sciences, straight to your inbox.
In the very first issue, read on for…
- ⚗ Five landmark UK AI centres for Healthcare
- 📝 The immense opportunity of dummy training data
- 📊 Success for AI heart disease prediction model
Numbers That Matter
£50m boost for UK research in healthcare AI
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says AI will play a ‘crucial role’ in helping ‘revolutionise’ the NHS’ future, as the government makes a promising bet to build 5 new healthcare AI centers across the country. Potentially saving the NHS as much as £12.5bn a year.
Trends
Is AI causing a Paradigm Shift in Healthcare?
Read the latest concerning the proliferation of highly personalised mobile AI applications, created by firms such as Ivy Health. By putting more power in the hands of patients through the provision of completely accurate, comprehensible and detailed information, AI is helping modernise and democratise an industry suffering from soaring costs to both patient and practitioner.
Leading the Pack
Amazon lead ‘Valley’s’ charge at AI healthcare
Amazon further demonstrate the recent trend of Silicon Valley giants looking to capitalise on the trillion dollar healthcare industry, by adding Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Transcribe to its growing list of HIPAA eligible AI services. This comes after Amazon beat Walmart to the reported billion dollar acquisition of PillPack, an online pharmaceutical delivery service, back in June of 2018.
Art of the Possible
Can fake patient data drive AI in healthcare?
It’s becoming increasingly possible for AI systems to train using largely fake data. This presents an immense opportunity in the rare conditions segment of healthcare, which often lacks the colossal amount of data required.
Research
AI predicts risk of death from heart disease more accurately than experts
Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research have developed an AI created model, for predicting the risk of death in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), that uses 600 variables with patient’s data, whereas the human-constructed model made predictions based on 27. Experts suggest AI systems such as this will soon move from assessing risk to then also suggesting treatments.
Privacy
Google is absorbing DeepMind’s health care unit
Google is to take control of its subsidiary DeepMind’s healthcare division, while a separate research team at DeepMind will continue to function independently of Google, but under the umbrella of its parent company Alphabet.
Privacy advocates have raised concerns about patients’ data in light of past assurances from DeepMind that it will never connect the health data it collects under Streams with Google.
In a blog post, DeepMind’s founders said it was a “major milestone” for the company that would help turn its Streams app — which it developed to help the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) — into “an AI-powered assistant for nurses and doctors.
Sport
Microsoft blends IoT and Edge Computing with AI to change the game of cricket
Spektacom, a sports tech startup founded by Anil Kumble, one of the most accomplished cricketers in India, partnered with Microsoft to bring cutting-edge technology to the game of cricket. Spektacom built a platform that includes a 5-gram sticker that attaches itself to the cricket bat, a stump box that acts as an IoT gateway, and AI-powered analytics to deliver insights on the batting style of a batsman.
Discovery’s Susanna Dinnage appointed chief executive of Premier League
Huge congrats to Susanna Dinnage on her recent appointment as CEO of the Premier League, becoming the first woman to hold the post.
