Polymorphic AI Adapts to Care: The Next Frontier in Healthcare – This And More News In Digital Health This Week

First of all, if you work in or conduct research on digital health, I need your help! We are doing a horizon scanning study to explore the future of digital health. Based on our research, we have identified key driving forces shaping healthcare and corresponding future statements describing potential developments.

The goal of this questionnaire is to validate these findings with insights from a broader expert community. Your input will help us assess the significance of each driving force and future statement, the likelihood of their realization within the next decade, and identify any important trends we may have missed.

The FDA now has a list of medical devices that incorporate sensor-based digital health technology! I analyzed it for you.

And I have received an EKO CORE 500 with an Eko + subscription to test and review. While I'd love to hear what features you are interested in seeing and testing on this new digital stethoscope, there is also a trend I want to highlight. 

I hope you will find this newsletter useful! Have a great week!

Best regards,

Berci

Bertalan Meskó, PhD

The Medical Futurist

POLYMORPHIC AI IN HEALTHCARE: POTENTIALS AND PROMISES

A polymorphic algorithm is one where the code can change while maintaining the same functionality. Such a technique has been adopted by malicious computer software to avoid detection. How about healthcare?

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TEMPERATURE-SENSING PATCH INVENTED FOR EARLY BREAST CANCER DETECTION

Now, a PhD student has developed a convenient and cost-effective wearable patch to measure subtle temperature changes across the breast, which could in the future be used to detect potential abnormalities and cancerous tumors. "𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎-𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛, 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑛𝑜𝑛-𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑑ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎, 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒."

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ORGAN TRANSPLANTS FOR IMMORTALITY: MIGHT XI AND PUTIN BE ONTO SOMETHING?

At a recent military parade, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed whether it is possible to become immortal with the help of organ transplants. 𝐴 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛, 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑋𝑖 ℎ𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 "𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟" 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑒 "𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦". "𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝟣𝟧𝟢," ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑.

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WOMAN USED AI TO SUCCESSFULLY APPEAL HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIM DENIAL

Two years after giving birth, a woman received a nearly $2,000 bill saying her health insurance wouldn't cover part of her maternity stay. After fighting for months, she decided to use generative AI. She turned to a company called Counterforce Health that uses AI to help patients appeal denied claims in minutes. What an interesting business niche. They even offer voice AI to call patients' insurance companies on their behalf.

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AI STETHOSCOPE COULD DETECT MAJOR HEART CONDITIONS IN SECONDS

The device replaces the traditional chest piece with a device around the size of a playing card. It uses a microphone to analyse subtle differences in heartbeat and blood flow that the human ear cannot detect. It takes an ECG, recording electrical signals from the heart, and sends the information to the cloud to be analysed by AI trained on data from tens of thousands of patients."The study by Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust saw more than 12,000 patients from 96 surgeries examined with AI stethoscopes manufactured by US firm Eko Health. They were then compared to patients from 109 GP surgeries where the technology was not used. Those with heart failure were 2.33 times more likely to have it detected within 12 months when examined with the AI stethoscope, researchers said."

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