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A Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

The Future of Healthcare, AI And The Art Of Medicine. 45-day Money-back guarantee: If you're not satisfied, simply return the book and you get a full refund

Unlock the future of medicine with Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, an essential guide by Dr. Bertalan Meskó and The Medical Futurist team. This concise yet comprehensive e-book demystifies AI, showing how it’s reshaping diagnostics, treatment design, clinical documentation, patient care, and drug discovery. From real-world examples to ethical challenges, it equips healthcare professionals and innovators with the insights they need to thrive in the AI era. Step confidently into the future of healthcare: start reading today.

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Artificial intelligence has recently moved from being a futuristic promise into a reference point for innovation. The technology also started to transform healthcare with great vigor. It’s high time to talk about what AI brings to medicine and healthcare.

  • What do machine learning, deep learning, or convolutional networks mean?
  • What are the most affected medical fields and specialties?
  • What are the greatest challenges for applying smart algorithms to healthcare settings?
  • What could the future bring?
  • What are the top use cases for artificial intelligence in healthcare?
  • What are the benefits of the exchange of knowledge between humans and machines?
  • What social and ethical implications do we need to address?

Read The Medical Futurist’s guide to understand what you can anticipate from AI in healthcare and how to control this technology.

  • Understand: Get a clear overview of the key concepts.
  • Anticipate: Learn how to identify the opportunities and use cases of AI in healthcare and medicine.
  • Control: Recognize and act upon the risks and implications of artificial intelligence.

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Author

About the Author

Dr. Bertalan Mesko

Dr. Bertalan Meskó, PhD is The Medical Futurist. A geek physician with a PhD in genomics and Amazon Top 100 author, he envisions the impact of digital health technologies on the future of healthcare, and helps patients, doctors, government regulators and companies make it a reality.

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Episode 55

An Interview with Dr. Bertalan Mesko

Contents

Table of Contents

Part I. THE BASICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

  1. Artificial intelligence is sexy
  2. Exaggerated fears and expectations about A.I.
  3. Let the quest for balanced views on A.I. begin
  4. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  5. Narrow, general, recognition or super?
  6. What do you need for developing A.I.?
  7. Data Analytics, Machine Learning & Deep Learning – Methods of Teaching Algorithms
  8. Data in healthcare
  9. A brief history and the current state of electronic medical records
  10. Why do we need help from A.I. when it comes to data?

Part II. APPLYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE

  1. Health data management
  2. Treatment pathway design
  3. Assistance in repetitive jobs
  4. Transforming diagnostics
  5. Health assistance and patient management
  6. Precision medicine
  7. Supporting pharma: drug creation and clinical trials
  8. Patient empowerment with big data
  9. What does using A.I. algorithms in everyday medicine look like?

Part III. COMPANIES IN THE FOREFRONT OF INNOVATION

  1. Mining Medical Records within Minutes
  2. Google Deepmind Health
  3. IBM WatsonPaths
  4. Careskore
  5. Zephyr Health
  6. Oncora Medical
  7. Sentrian
  8. CloudMedX Health
  9. Disrupting Medical Imaging
  10. Butterfly Network
  11. 3Scan
  12. Enlitic
  13. Arterys
  14. Bay Labs
  15. Speeding up biological and drug development from years to weeks
  16. Recursion Pharmaceuticals
  17. Whole Biome
  18. iCarbonX
  19. Deep Genomics
  20. Resources about A.I.

Part IV. WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REPLACE PHYSICIANS?

Contributors

About the Contributors

Nora Rado

An ambitious doctor of medicine and journalist covering the digital health, gaming and tech industries. Strong concentration, determination and attention to details are defining features. Has an insatiable interest in science, technology and video games and is always eager to gather new knowledge.

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