Will Artificial Intelligence Change Healthcare?

Eugene Borukhovich SVP Healthcare@HealthEugene

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KnowledgePlanning & LearningNatural Language

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Creation of data assetsOver 2B mobile devicesCost of compute & storageImprovements in learning systemsPerception & Object Manipulations

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Creation of data assetsOver 2B mobile devicesCost of compute & storageImprovements in learning systems

Artificial Intelligence, Real MoneyTotal venture capital money for pure AI startups, by year

Data: CB Insights

2015• Over 300 deals• 33 M&A Transactions• 1 IPO• ~5% of total VC funding

Machine LearningSystems

Neuroscience

Emotion Recognition (Emotient)

AI to predict drug resistanceCould AI predict healthcare outcomes? A research Peter Rogan of the University of Western Ontario reports that artificial intelligence is a powerful tool to predict drug outcomes because it looks at the sum of all the interacting genes.

US startup AiCure uses artificial intelligence on patient’s mobile devices to confirm medication ingestion support in clinical trials and high-risk populations.

“Did you take your pill?”How AI could support medication adherence

AI for smarter drug developmentAs a result of joint efforts of IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Sanofi, IBM Watson Discovery Advisor could help doctors to match a drug with the right set of patients in order to maximize effectiveness and minimize side effects.

Assisted cognition systems explored by Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington, are considered to make use of AI technology to replace some of the memory and problem-solving abilities that have been lost by an Alzheimer’s patient.

AI for Alzheimer’s Patients

With IoT applications quickly reaching a limit of what could be done with all the data collected, machine-learning systems have adapting to handle larger capacities of incoming data

AI for Wearable Health

Regulations

Credit: Matthew Scherer’s article ‘Regulating Artificial Intelligence Systems’.

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Eugene Borukhovich SVP Healthcare@HealthEugene