Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Healthcare : The Unfolding Story





Over the past 2 days , news papers carried following headlines :









An article in Business Line ( 19 June ) reads :



  Google had created a tool that could forecast a host of patient outcomes , including, how long people may stay in hospitals, their odds of re-admission and chances they will soon die



What impressed medical experts most was Google’s ability to sift through data previously out of reach ; notes buried in PDFs or scribbled on old charts




The neural net gobbled up all this unruly information then spat out predictions . And it did it far faster and more accurately than existing techniques 






Now imagine what Google will be able to do ( beyond just calculating accurately, the probability of a patient’s death ) , if it had access to each and every “ Diagnostic and Curative “ medical DEVICE / INSTRUMENT of the entire world , as described in my following blog :



 

Here is what I blogged in Jan 2018.

 

2024 ! – V 2.0 of Orwellian 1984 ?

 

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/07/2024-v-20-of-orwellian-1984.html

 


There are 7,000 million people on the earth


It is possible that , at any given time , some 7 million of these are lying in ICU , connected with :



*   Electroencephalogram ( Brain Monitor )


*   Electrocardiogram      ( Heart Monitor )


*   Pulse Rate Meter


*   Oxygen Level Meter


*   Glucose Level Meter........etc



As soon as these instruments get embedded with 
Internet of Things ( IoT ), a central server could collect all of these " measurements / readings " on 24*7 basis , for all 7 million persons

 

Then it will 
combine these readings with following data about each of those 7 million persons :


*   
Country / Region / City  /  Language 

*   
Race /  Religion  /  Gender /  Age

*   
Height /  Weight  /  Colour  /  Biometrics 

*   
Blood Group / DNA  / Past Medical History.....etc


It will also record , who died / when  !


Using such massive data base, can BIG DATA / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning ,
figure out what " Customized healthcare Medical treatment Supplementary diet "
should be " prescribed " for each human on this earth ?



Shall we support such " Invasion of Individual Privacy " , in the larger interest / benefit
of entire mankind ?


I think , we should 


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20  June  2018


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