🎧 When AI Meets Medicine

My conversation with Dr Eric Topol

Hi,

Here is my full discussion with Dr Eric Topol—world-renowned cardiologist and geneticist whose book Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again is a primer on digital medicine.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• The erosion of the doctor-patient relationship as the primary paradigmatic shift in today’s medicine landscape.

• The potential for multimodal data collection and digital technologies to decompress an overworked health care system and reconfigure the delivery of patient care. 

• Whether an accountable chain of reasoning is the missing piece in black box algorithmic tech.

• Issue of access, equality of access and equality of capability amongst patients participating in digital therapeutics – and where the responsibility for alleviating existing systemic inequalities lies.

• The impact of GDPR on explainability and the provision of medical AI.

• Algorithmic surveillance and whether the traditional management culture of ‘patching’ bugs translates to digital thera…