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🔮 2025 Digital Health Predictions and Reflections on 2024’s Hits & Misses

December 31, 2024December 31, 2024 admin 0 Comments 23andMe, Acquisitions, AI agents, AI fraud, AI scribe, AI tourists, API, Augmedix, Babylon Health, bankruptcy, Bitcoin, Blockchain, BTC, Commure, Delisting, Digital Health, Digital health failures, EHR, EMR, EU, fraud, FTC, GLP-1, Innovation, IPO, Livongo, Lobbying, M&A, Medicare fraud, Nuvo Cares, Olive AI, Optum Ventures, Outcome Health, PBM, PE, Pieces Technologies, Private equity, R1 RCM, SCWorx Corp, Suki, The Data Act, Truepill, UnitedHealth, VC, VC bro culture, VC bros, Venture capital, Walmart, Walmart Health

2024 was the year of “AI tourists” in healthcare. Will 2025 finally bring innovation in digital health? Continue reading this

Will AI Replace Doctors?

The “AI Outperforms Doctors” Claim Is False, Despite NYT Story – A Rebuttal

November 27, 2024 admin 0 Comments AI Biases, Balanced Incomplete Block Design (BIBD), Chatbot, ChatGPT, Diagnostics, GPT-4, GPT-4o, Large Language Models, LLM, medical diagnosis, o1 Strawberry Model, Random sampling, Reasoning, Small sample bias

WellAI’s co-founder Sergei Polevikov exposes the dishonesty and lack of journalistic integrity at the New York Times for claiming that

The AI Bubble? It’s Really a Startup Bubble, and It’s Popping Big Time

October 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments AI Bubble, AI copycats, AI tourists, Babylon Health, Digital health failures, Dr. Jeffrey Funk, FOMO, Gartner Hype Cycle, Healthcare AI, Hype, IPO, Palantir, Pump and dump, startup, Startup Bubble, Startup failures, Startup Lessons, Tech bros, Tech parasites, Tempus AI, Unicorns, VC bros, Venture capital, Zapata AI

The new book released today, Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles by Dr. Jeffrey Funk, offers a balanced and realistic view of

AI in Healthcare

Selling The New o1 ‘Strawberry’ to Healthcare Is a Crime, No Matter What OpenAI Says 🍓

September 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments AgentClinic, ChatGPT, GPT-4, medical diagnosis, MedQA, Misdiagnosis, o1 Strawberry Model, OpenAI, Sam Altman

While the previous GPT-4o model was confidently misdiagnosing, o1 takes it a step further—not only confidently misdiagnosing but also rationalizing

AI in Healthcare

Painful AI Adoption in Medicine: 10 Obstacles to Overcome

August 12, 2024 admin 0 Comments AI Adoption, AI Biases, AI Ethics, AI Explainability, AI failures, Contaminated data, False Negatives, Fine tuning, Hallucination, Hallucinations, LLM, Neural net layer stability, Overfitting, RAF, RLHF

9 out of 10 hurdles are technical. But the biggest roadblock? It’s 100% human… Continue reading this article on Substack…

OpenAI Concedes: We’re Only at Level 1 of AI Progress, Far from AGI

July 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments AGI, AI, Andriy Burkov, Artificial General Intelligence, ChatGPT, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, Gary Marcus, Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Nick Bostrom, OpenAI, Q-star, Q*, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Singularity, Yann LeCun

Sam Altman has unfortunately lost the AGI debate to Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus… Continue reading this article on Substack…

AI in Healthcare

Med-Gemini by Google: A Boon for Researchers, A Bane for Doctors

July 6, 2024July 6, 2024 admin 0 Comments Gemini, Generative AI, Google, Hallucinations, Healthcare AI, Large Language Models, LLM, Med PaLM 2, Med-Gemini

Google published a new paper on fine-tuning its state-of-the-art (SoTa) multimodal LLM, called Gemini, for medical purposes, aptly naming it

AI Biases AI in Healthcare

AI Has Failed Radiologists: Why Do Humans Believe Bad Predictions?

March 12, 2024 admin 0 Comments AI Biases, AI Cost, Ali Parsa, Automation Bias, Babylon Health, Cognitive Bias, Elizabeth Holmes, fraud, Geoffrey Hinton, Madoff, Nassim Taleb, Ponzi Scheme, Radiology, scam, Theranos, Vinod Khosla

The Oscar ceremony was held last night. Can you name a movie outside of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” that was nominated

12 Questions for Healthcare Regulators about AI Biases and Health Equity

February 28, 2024 admin 0 Comments AAFP, AI Biases, AI Ethics, AI Fairness, AI Regulation, AMA, EU AI Act, FDA, HIPAA, Responsible AI, WAME

Healthcare is a critical domain where AI can improve lives. However, due to its importance, it’s a high-risk area where

Digital Health Market

A Message to Digital Health Founders: There is No Money in Disease Prevention. Come Back in 10 Years.

February 27, 2024 admin 0 Comments Antitrust, Bright Health, Clover Health, Dermatology, Digital Health, Disease Prevention, Drug Discovery, EHR, Epic, Fee-For-Service (FFS), FTC, Genomics, GoHealth, Inflation Reduction Act, Insuretech, Mammography, Medical Advice, medical diagnosis, Monetization, Oscar Health, Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM), Radiology, Robotics, startup, Startup Founders, Startup Lessons, Startup Life, The Affordable Care Act (ACA), Treatment, Venture capital

Monetization is a real challenge in digital health. Making money in healthcare tech is tough. Whether it’s governments or insurance

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