AIMI - Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (Stanford)

Dr. Topol

Daphne Koller, CEO and Founder, Insitro

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xf7ujqrwM0E

Doctors

“Machines will not replace physicians but physicians using AI will soon replace those not using it” -Antonio Di leva

• ultrasound (connected to a smartphone) allows you to see everything (ie. more data!)
  • “full body selfies”
  • “I haven’t used a stethoscope in a decade” “why would you do that?”

Patients

• detecting low glucose through cardiogram
• non-threatening diagnosis
• quantification/digitization of state of mind

Humanism

• global epidemic of burnout (only exasperated by COVID-19)

Time Magazine, Nov 2019

• We don’t want “The Robot Will See You Now” (a play on “The Patient Will See You Now” (!))
• AI is critical to reducing the overhead (on the order of ~70%) EHR has introduced across disciplines

Fireside Chat

• “more integration”
  • cross-functional teams where everyone is equal (not a life sciences team w an IT “service” or teams w a consulting doctor)
    • equal emphasis on what a tool “can” accomplish vs what a tool “should” accomplish
    • collaborative team mindset
      • open and willingness to hear perspectives of others, even if they are very different from your own
  • NEED: programs to train bi-lingual “translators” - speak intelligently on both sides
    • computational sciences - convey excitement of doing life science work
    • life sciences - provide data science tools
  • “next generation of scientific endeavor”
• diversity of data
  • not do it the way genomics started (predominately European)
• Q: how do you keep up w exponential information
  • clarify what personal focus is
  • REF: Dr. Penguin - keeping up with Healthcare and AI research
  • leverage Twitter (multiple perspectives)
  • you have to choose an area
    • if you achieve mastery of one area, you are doing really really well