Low government spending on healthcare (1,28% of the country’s GDP), poor infrastructure, inequalities in access to medical services, high out-of-pocket expenditures, shortages of health professionals, unmanageable patient-load — healthcare in India is struggling. Meantime, there are 760 mln smartphone users and over 620 mln active internet users. Will technology rescue…

Can a fitness tracker change the lifestyle and improve the health of its owner? Studies in this area are conflicting or few, and reliable publications are lacking. Many available reports are biased, while surveys among smartwatch users tend to be unreliable. The global market of wearables is booming. Wristbands and…

Before Artificial Intelligence takes my job, I decided to challenge AI. Instead of writing an article following journalistic best practices and ethical standards, I did what AI would do. I created text from random sentences found on the Internet. How did this experiment go? There are already 858.000.000 Google search…

Interview with Casper Klynge, Microsoft’s Vice President for European Government Affairs. We talk about ethical AI in healthcare, secondary use of data, and the role of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Where should the border between citizens’ privacy, human rights, and secondary use of data and data reuse for scientific…

Every year, when the number of flu cases grows, healthcare centers burst at the seams. Paradoxically, in order to get medical advice, patients infect other people in waiting rooms, on public transport, and in workplaces. Or they get infected if they are healthy. The COVID-19 pandemic made us realize that…

Can robots supplement the ‘human touch’ of real doctors? Are we able to forgive machines that make medical mistakes? Can a chatbot offer an empathetic, compassionate level of care? …

They help the disabled, entertain patients in hospitals, and support therapies for autistic children. But from robots in healthcare, we expect much more than just manual help. We want human touch. Humanoids augmented with social abilities should react to our emotions and create authentic relationships so we can trust them…