Teknologirådet: Fem teknologier som får psykologen på nett med pasienten
Ny “saken forklart” rapport er ute hos Teknologirådet.
Pandemien har ført til en økning av angst og depresjon i Norge. Riksrevisjonen påpekte i juni i år alvorlige mangler i de psykiske helsetjenestene i kommunene, og det er lange ventelister for hjelp.
Samtidig kan apper og tilbud på nett gjøre det enklere for folk å søke hjelp for psykiske plager, og nye studier viser at disse kan gi gode resultater.
– Mer bruk av videosamtaler med psykologen er ikke nok. Selvhjelpsapper, sensorer og chatboter kan øke både kapasiteten og kvaliteten, og sørge for at flere får den psykiske helsehjelpen de trenger, sier Tore Tennøe, direktør i Teknologirådet.
AI helps discover possible therapy for rare disease
You should read the whole story:
In the seven difficult years since their son Mateo was diagnosed with a rare disease called ANDP syndrome, Victoria Malvagno and Frank Solorzano have been waiting for medicine to catch up with their lives. In 2019, the ANDP community got a breakthrough — not from a drug developer, or a doctor’s office, but from an artificial intelligence tool. The system, called mediKanren, sifted through millions of abstracts and rapidly pinpointed an unexpected target: ketamine.
Apple’s CareKit is put to use
From STAT:
After a heart attack, managing recovery can be an overwhelming process. With a boost from Apple, a team from Johns Hopkins University has developed an app built on Apple’s CareKit that guides heart attack patients through the steps. Called Corrie, it’s been touted by Apple as an example of CareKit’s potential— tracking vital signs and activity and sending nudges about medications and follow-up appointments with the help of an Apple Watch and connected blood pressure cuff.
In July, the Corrie team published results showing the app reduced risk of hospital readmissions by half in a pool of 200 patients at four hospitals. But to turn the platform from a research project into a widely-used tool, they’ll need to prove that the app works in the real world. “There are so many apps out there that promise the coolest things in the world,” said Mathias Lee, Corrie’s technology lead. “Even in health care, very few of them actually become commercial products.”
How TikTok pushes negative content
WSJ on how TikTok figures out what makes you tick in order to keep your engagement. The article is behind a paywall, but the video is available.
“We are training them [the algorithms] and they are training us.”
