Can you Trust AI Data Use in Healthcare?

Artificial Intelligence is transforming the healthcare industry and can lead to improved outcomes such as lower costs, but we need to address the fact that data can fail in ways that biological tissues cannot.  Data is messy but it’s also fundamental to building AI engines for interpretation, such as progress overtime. We know that electronic records don’t tell the whole story. According to Pat Baird, Senior Regulatory Specialist at Philips, data brought into health ecosystems needs to be trustable, interoperable and linkable.

 Here’s My Take: All data is bias, from the way it is captured to the way the data set is represented. The bias factors need to be transparent so that alternative interpretations of the results can be considered. The quality of the data has to be challenged: is it correct, complete or relevant? Too frequently, the priority is on getting the numbers, which results in skipping over the context of the capture and the source. Analytic tools applied to data sets require that the insights are grounded in context, and to be pertinent, the data needs to be interoperable. Algorithms in one patient population may not be applicable to another.

 Reference: Trust and the Impact of AI on Health Care, CES 2021

Perfect Timing for Next Gen TVs

Consumers are leaning heavily on home entertainment during COVID, and manufacturers are rapidly rolling out Next Gen TVs ( ATSC 3.0).  The awareness campaign is big. Audience expectations are high. Pandemic delayed initial availability but 3.0 is available now. The timing is good. TVs are ready.

The  ATSC 3.0 platform was designed to evolve over time, providing broadcasters five years to transition by 2022. When HDR and wide color gamut start popping off the screen consumers get addicted. The scoring for immersive TV is high, but still many consumers are content with the televisions they have. Fortunately, the ATSC 3.0 platform designed for the ability to upscale content using today’s codecs to 4K, and the more data that you give a TV the better the display is going to look. We can expect the next advancements in ATSC to provide higher frame rate for live content, as well as the first IP-based content delivered over internet that can be seamlessly combined with over the air content.

ATSC 3.0 Roll Out (Balderston, 2020)

At a time when consumers are heavily relying on the screens in their home, improving the experience as much as possible is responsibility of the industry. We have the pipe and the technology, now we need the content. According to Madeline Noland, President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee  (ATSC), expect the unlock to occur with a growth of non-traditional content and creator communities partnering to amplify the experience. Michael Davies of Fox Sports expects betting and free to play video gaming will accelerate the next gen content development, and the way consumers view concurrent content is going to improve. Rather than jerry-rigging adjacent mobile devices, with Next Gen TVs consumers can pull in multiple sources and frame them on a single pane of glass. Next Generation audio provides Volume Balancing between sources and Voice Plus which enhances the dialog, because apparently many people without hearing impairments have been enabling captions.

Reference:

CTA (2021) Next Generation Television in Focus, CES 2021

Balderston, M. (2020). ATSC 3.0 Deployments: Where and When Will NextGen TV be Available? TVTech.