📰 From AI Surgical Safety Innovations to Swallowable Robot Pills: Explore This Week’s Breakthroughs in Medical AI! 🚀
Updates on Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies in Medicine 🤖💊
'We need to design and build AI that helps healthcare professionals be better at what they do. The aim should be enabling humans to become better learners and decision-makers.' - Mihaela van der Schaar, PhD, director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine
Dear Med AI Enthusiast,
Welcome to The ‘Med AI’ Capsule weekly newsletter! Here’s your inside look at how AI and emerging technologies are transforming medicine. ⚕
Whether you're a medical professional 👩⚕️, a tech enthusiast 💻, or simply curious 🧠, The 'Med AI' Capsule is for you!
Stay informed 📰 about the latest updates and insights into the world 🌍 of AI in medicine.
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In today’s capsule:
5 News Updates
4 Latest Research Papers
3 Industry Innovators
2 Upcoming Events
1 Knowledge Resource
Reading Time: 7-10 minutes
News Updates 📰
1. 🏥 AI-enabled ‘Black Box’ to Enhance Surgical Safety
A groundbreaking OR ‘black box’ system built by Surgical Safety Technologies uses AI to record and analyze surgeries, providing critical insights to surgeons through a combination of video, audio, and data analysis.
Why Important: This technology enhances surgical safety by identifying key procedure segments, helping reduce errors, and improving overall outcomes. By anonymizing data, it ensures privacy while delivering valuable performance metrics.
“There are so many small details that normally take years and years of practice to realize—that some surgeons never get to that point. Suddenly, I could see all these insights and opportunities overnight.” - Teodor Grantcharov, Professor of Surgery at Stanford
Caution: Despite its advances, the system is not fully autonomous and requires human oversight to ensure accuracy, particularly with audio transcription.
2. 🤖 NHS to Launch AI-powered Physiotherapy Clinics This Year
The NHS is set to introduce AI-powered physiotherapy clinics providing same-day video appointments with a digital physiotherapist via an app.
Why Important: This innovation aims to significantly reduce waiting times and alleviate the pressure on healthcare professionals. It offers a new way to address the rising demand for physiotherapy services due to an ageing and increasingly obese population.
“Our technology means every patient gets a constantly individualised experience and care pathway based on their feedback, symptoms and progress. It’s like having a structured video call with a physiotherapist, but our side of the call is being assembled on servers.” - Finn Stevenson, Co-founder, Flok app
Caution: While promising, AI cannot fully replicate the nuanced skills of a human physiotherapist, and further research is needed to ensure safety and effectiveness.
3. 🌟 Indian AI Startup JiviAI Takes Top Spot in Healthcare AI Rankings
JiviAI's healthcare language model, MedX, has claimed the top position on Hugging Face’s Open Medical LLM Leaderboard, outshining models from Google and OpenAI.
Why Important: This success highlights the disruptive potential of emerging AI startups in the healthcare sector. MedX’s superior performance showcases the effectiveness of tailored medical language models in providing reliable medical insights.
Caution: Continuous validation and updates are essential to ensure MedX remains accurate and dependable in practical medical applications.
4. 🧒 New VR System with Eye Tracking Makes MRI Scans Easier for Kids
Researchers at King’s College London have developed an eye tracking controlled VR system that lets young children engage in immersive VR experiences during MRI scans, using only their eyes to play games or watch videos.
Why Important: This innovation reduces the need for anesthesia, minimizes stress and movement during scans, and opens new possibilities for awake brain studies in children. It ensures a more comfortable and successful MRI experience.
"The instant gaze technology we have created makes gaze-based user interfaces feel completely comfortable and natural to use. Feedback has been incredibly positive, both from children and adults, suggesting that this technology could make a real difference to MR examinations, with widespread benefits." - Professor Jo Hajnal, Professor of imaging Science in the Centre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences
Caution: Continuous interaction is essential for accuracy, and while head movement is minimized, it cannot be completely eliminated.
5. 💊 Tiny Swallowable Robot ‘PillBot’ Set to Enhance Endoscopy
Endiatx's PillBot is a tiny, swallowable robot designed for non-invasive gastrointestinal examinations. Equipped with cameras, sensors, and LEDs, it transmits high-resolution video to doctors in real time.
Why Important: This innovation offers a comfortable, less-invasive alternative to traditional endoscopy, potentially reducing the need for hospital visits and making diagnostic procedures more accessible and cost-effective.
Caution: The current version still requires manual control by doctors, and ongoing monitoring is essential to ensure safety as the technology progresses towards autonomous operation.
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Latest Research Papers 🔬
Artificial Intelligence–Powered Rapid Identification of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction via Electrocardiogram (ARISE) — A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial | NEJM AI - AI-ECG–assisted triage significantly reduces treatment times for STEMI patients in emergency and inpatient settings.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation–Enabled GPT-4 for Clinical Trial Screening | NEJM AI - RECTIFIER system, powered by GPT-4 and RAG, improves the accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of clinical trial screening for patients with symptomatic heart failure compared to manual reviews by study staff.
A multi-center study on the adaptability of a shared foundation model for electronic health records | npj Digital Medicine (nature.com) - adapting a publicly accessible structured EHR foundation model (FMSM) across hospitals enhances prediction performance and efficiency compared to locally trained models.
Assessment of the information provided by ChatGPT regarding exercise for patients with type 2 diabetes: a pilot study | BMJ Health & Care Informatics - ChatGPT provides largely accurate, safe, and useful information on exercise for type 2 diabetes patients, though some responses may be incomplete.
Industry Innovators 👨🏭
AbleTo - offers personalized virtual mental health care through licensed therapists and coaches, focusing on cognitive behavioral therapy to manage stress, improve mood, and overcome challenges effectively and conveniently.
Abridge - uses generative AI to convert patient-clinician conversations into real-time structured clinical notes, reducing documentation burden, and integrates with Epic systems to support over 50 medical specialties and 14 languages, enhancing clinician efficiency and patient care focus.
Abtrace - offers a proactive monitoring and intelligent recall system for healthcare practices, fully integrated with EMIS and SystmOne, automating patient recall, improving care quality, enhancing workplace satisfaction, and optimizing finances with streamlined processes and accurate coding, supporting clinicians, administrators, pharmacists, and nurses with clear care status and actionable insights.
Upcoming Events 🧑💻
AI Workshop 3.0 is just around the corner on 14th July and we are geared up to bring an exciting updated experience to all participants!
Limited seats are available for AI Workshop!
In this workshop, we will be covering:
Basics of AI/ML and Data Science
Introduction to Orange and Kaggle
Effective use of AI for literature search and writing medical manuscripts
Hands-on use of ChatGPT and Others GenAI platforms by doctors
Using AI to increase daily productivity and creativity by doctors
This is a foundation course for all medical professionals exploring the use of AI in their daily practice!
Knowledge Resource 📚
10 Things You Can Definitely Expect From The Future Of Healthcare AI (medicalfuturist.com)
This article explores the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, highlighting key advancements and challenges that lie ahead.
AI promises to enhance patient care and redefine the role of physicians by integrating multimodal AI, recognizing the vital role of data annotators, and automating repetitive, data-driven tasks. These advancements will allow physicians to focus more on patient interaction and complex problem-solving. AI will also uncover hidden biomedical associations and biomarkers, necessitating new skills like prompt engineering for effective collaboration.
However, the article also underscores the challenges of ensuring health equity, combating bias, adapting regulatory frameworks, and addressing the threats posed by deepfakes. These changes will require a collaborative effort from physicians, technologists, regulators, and patients.
Ultimately, while AI promises to augment healthcare capabilities, the article reminds us that the core of healthcare remains fundamentally human, with AI serving to enhance the empathetic, intuitive patient-doctor relationship.
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Disclaimer: The content in this newsletter was partly curated and summarised using AI LLMs, which can make mistakes. Please check all important information. For any issues or inaccuracies, please notify me on avneeshkhareonline@gmail.com.