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Create word embeddings from PubMed patient summaries
Building upon the previous tutorial on one-hot encoding, this tutorial will explore the concept of word embeddings and implement this with real-world data.
When a correct diagnosis matters
When does a correct diagnosis matter? Does it matter if a human or computer makes the decision? I reflect on a recent article by the...
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Reflecting on 1 year with Health Tech Bytes
July ended up being a busy month transitioning to a new opportunity, but I wanted to reflect on one year of writing my blog, Health Tech Bytes. In this post,...
Black box AI: The challenge for healthcare adoption
After writing my last post, I wanted to revisit the black box phenomenon in AI models. AI is already embedded into many medical devices today, and the number of FDA-approved...
A primer on AI ethics and regulation in healthcare
I had not explored much into AI ethics and regulation until recently, when this article shed light into the on-going dilemma of liabilty when AI is used for patient care....
Relevance of transformer models for healthcare
Last week, nurses openly voiced concerns about the rush to adopt generative AI in healthcare, pitting the novel technology against the humanization of care. Healthcare is arguably at an inflection...
Can healthcare embrace the AI revolution?
“Healthcare loves a new new thing and generative AI is now it”, stated Robert Galvin, MD, an executive advisor of The Blackstone Group, in this Forbes article predicting the top...
