Getting Ahead Of Coronavirus By Identifying Incipient Outbreaks Before The Authorities

How Are You Feeling?  Surveys Aim To Detect Covid-19 Hot Spots Early by David M. Halbfinger.  The New York Times.  April 1, 2020.

Brain Tumors Diagnosed In Two And A Half Minutes Not 20-30 With Artificial Intelligence And Lasers

A.I Comes To The Operating Room by Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  January 6, 2020.

AI Analysis Of Speech Patterns May Be An Integral Part Of Mental Health Care

How Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Psychiatry by Lisa Marshall.  Medical Xpress.  November 13, 2019.

AI May Equal Human Experts In Making Medical Diagnoses Based On Images

AI Equal With Human Experts In Medical Diagnosis, Study Finds by Nicola Davis.  The Guardian.  September 24, 2019.

Artificial Intelligence In Medical Diagnostics

Intelligence In Medical Diagnostics, 2019 Research Report-ResearchAnd Markets.com.   Business Wire.  August 14, 2019. 

Diabetic Retinopathy Artificial Intelligence Diagnostic System Illustrates Issues With Medical Algorithms

How Can We Be Sure Artificial Intelligence Is Safe For Medical Use?  by Richard Harris.  NPR.  April 14, 2019. 

Artificial Intelligence: Possible Tool In Diagnosing Complex Or Rare Conditions

A.I. Shows Promise Assisting Physicians by Cade Metz.  The New York Times.  February 11, 2019. 

Artificial Intelligence Spotting The Warning Signs Of Disease

The Invisible Warning Signs That Predict Your Future Health by Leah Kaminsky.  BBC.  January 17, 2019. 

Humans Are Rapidly Improving Their Ability To Deceive

How Will We Outsmart A.I. Liars?  by Cade Metz.  The New York Times.  November 19, 2018. 

Small Study: Artificial Intelligence Tool Seems To Help With Early Detection Of Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's:  Artificial Intelligence Predicts Onset by Catharine Paddock PhD.  Medical News Today.  November 7, 2018. 

Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In Graduate Medical Education

Educating The Next Generation Of Medical Professionals With Machine Learning Is Essential.  Boston University School Of Medicine/Science September 27, 2018. 

Medical AI Subject To Bias

If AI Is Going To Be The World's Doctor, It Needs Better Textbooks by Dave Gershgorn.  Quartz.  September 6, 2018. 

Artificial Intelligence Creates Uniquely Chinese Solutions In Healthcare

Amazon Wants To Disrupt Health Care In America.  In China, Tech Giants Already Have by Sui-Lee Wee and Paul Mozur.  The New York Times.  January 31, 2017. 

Artificial Intelligence Increasingly Used To Quickly Access Diagnosis And Treatment Information

When Doctors Need Advice, It Might Not Come From A Fellow Human by Daniela Hernandez.  Kaiser Health News.  June 2, 2014.

Virtual Reality Tools In Healthcare Delivery and Patient Education

The Avatar Will See You Now by Jessica Leber.  Technology Review.  June 10, 2013.

(1)  Molly, an avatar used at San Mateo Medical Center, is sometimes used to coach patients who ____________________.

(2)  More than ________ companies use ______________ and ___________ from Nuance.

(3)  One expert cited in the article stated that though electronic systems often reduce errors, any errors that occur can ___________________________.

(4)  Over time the hope is to improve care for patients in their ___________ environment.

Visionary Or Insane? Often It Is Difficult To Tell

This Man Is Not A Cyborg.  Yet. by David Segal.  The New York Times.  June 1, 2013.

Science and medicine  often produce distinctive work when confronted with provocative questions or projects.  This project certainly fits that label, raising questions of consciousness, intelligence, and immortality.

The essence of the project, call the 2045 Initiative, for the year the Russian entrepreneur who funds it. hopes it is completed, "envisions the mass production of lifelike, low-cost avatar, that can be uploaded with the contents of a human brain, complete with all the particulars of consciousness and personality."

Insane?  Perhaps. But his second annual 2045 Global Future Congress in New York City will be attended by, among many others,  George M. Church,  professor at the Harvard Medical School and one of the great pioneers of genetics.  He says:  "I have a rule against saying something is impossible unless it violates laws of physics."

Visit the Congress website and listen to some of the prominent attendees who have prepared You Tube videos dealing with relevant issues.