Driving the future of digital health with AI

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎆

After a 2-week vacation, our journey into the transformative world of AI in medicine and healthcare resumes!

2023 was a remarkable year, defined by the leaps in generative AI and large language model, the breakthroughs with GLP-1 agonists, the business deals in antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), and the Nobel prize of mRNA. But what will 2024 hold?

Stay tuned as we uncover groundbreaking advancements, explore cutting-edge technologies, and witness the remarkable ways AI is reshaping healthcare.

Our first newsletter of 2024 turns into the digital health space.

FDA defines the broad scope of digital health includes categories such as mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalized medicine. As a large amount of data can come from these sources, AI plays a critical role in the development of digital health solutions.

• AMA’s commitment to the future of digital health.

  • American Medical Association (AMA) just published its digital health strategy, emphasizing the AMA's role in revolutionizing healthcare through digital innovation and AI. As the article said, “With rapid advancements in AI-enabled health care innovation, the AMA is committed to helping physicians become well-informed.”

• An explosion in the number of journals and papers in digital health.

  • Since the first digital health journal was published by Sage Journals in 2015, most major publishers joined in recent years, including npj Digital Medicine, Lancet Digital Health, PLOS Digital Health, BMC Digital Health, Frontiers in Digital Health, etc.

  • We’d like to share two recent papers from npj Digital Medicine on using AI to analyze electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor data: 1) Artificial intelligence-enabled ECG for left ventricular diastolic function and filling pressure (using convolutional neural networks) and 2) An interpretable model based on graph learning for diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease with voice-related EEG (using graph convolutional networks).

• Business interests and customer needs still remain in the current challenging economic environment

  • Amazon launches a new initiative to help connect healthcare consumers with digital health benefits for chronic conditions available through their employer or insurance plan.

  • Americans are obsessed with health and fitness tracking.

  • UK funding agency launches five large-scale multidisciplinary digital health hubs.

  • The venture capital funding in digital health reached a low point in 2023, and will still face some recalibration in 2024, as Rock Health predicted.

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