AI assisted health and care has the potential to change how we deliver services. In health, it’s impacting areas including electronic health records, genomics, and medical imaging. And there is a real potential for AI to significantly impact health and care through physical environments – hospitals, clinics, the home – assisting with complex care needs.
Here I’ve listed some, what I consider to be, must-see talks and short documentaries. I’ve chosen these to cover a range of applications: in healthcare environments, mental health, elder care, and ethics.
And if you’re interested in AI ethics issues more generally, you can find some great podcasts well worth listening to here.
Short videos
Channel 4 News on ‘AI Explained – How machine learning could save our healthcare system’
Short documentary from Channel 4 News.
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence – once the stuff of science fiction, it’s now becoming a reality across our society. Healthcare is one area where doctors believe AI could transform the way patients are treated – so could it be a saviour for the cash strapped NHS?
The Robot Will See You Now – AI and Your Health Care
Short documentary on AI in health care
Abstract: Artificial intelligence is now detecting cancer and robots are doing nursing tasks. But are there risks to handing over elements of our health to machines, no matter how sophisticated?
Lectures and panel discussions
Fei-Fei Lee on ‘Towards ambient intelligence in AI-assisted healthcare spaces’
Presentation at the The Alan Turing Institute. Direct link to presentation here.
Abstract: Artificial intelligence has begun to impact healthcare in areas including electronic health records, medical images, and genomics. But one aspect of healthcare that has been largely left behind thus far is the physical environments in which healthcare delivery takes place: hospitals, clinics, and assisted facilities, among others.
In this talk I will discuss our work on endowing healthcare spaces with ambient intelligence, using computer vision-based human activity understanding in the healthcare environment to assist clinicians with complex care.
Dr Michel Valstar on ‘Role of Artificial Intelligence’
Presentation to the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham
Abstract: Dr Michel Valstar from the Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre describes his research on virtual human agents and how these could be used within mental health.
Digital Health London on ‘AI in Healthcare: The great debate’
Debate on the question: Artificial Intelligence – Enabling less contact with medical professionals?
Abstract: AI has huge potential to transform the face of healthcare as we know it. But despite the potentially significant efficiency savings it promises, is it the right way to go, and how do we ensure patient voice isn’t lost?
Here, in a video from DigitalHealth.London’s recent /collaborate Summit, Dr Ameet Bakhai, Ali Parsa and Professor Nicolas Peters explore the potential for AI in healthcare. The session is chaired by Dr Jordan Shlain.
An unedited version of the whole session (30 mins) is also available
CPDP 2017 Panel discussion on ‘AI, ethics and the future of health’
Panel discussion at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference.
Abstract: Chair: AI and Big Data have immense potential to advance health in our society. Successful AI applications are used by medical professionals for drug discovery, clinical trials, and disease prediction (e.g. medical expert systems). As data analytics and machine learning become increasingly established in the health sector, the promise to reduce healthcare costs and medical errors, increase efficiency and cure more diseases is tangible. At the same time, each of these advances will to some extent turn tasks and decisions traditionally left to doctors and other health and social care professionals over to AI applications which sometimes operate as opaque ‘black boxes’. What are the opportunities and risks that algorithmic decisions about treatments plans, diagnoses/medical predictions, patient risk, and insurance eligibility pose to our existing health care systems? This panel will address these and other pressing ethical and legal concerns raised by such systems.
Panel discussion includes:
Chair: Cornelia Kutterer, Microsoft (BE)
Moderator: Alessandro Spina, EMA (EU)
Panel: Philippe De Backer, Secretary of State (BE), Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute (UK), Sandra Wachter, Alan Turing Institute (UK), Jean-Philippe Walter, Council of Europe (INT)
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