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Federated Learning for Medical Research

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Applied Innovation Healthtech

Federated Learning for Medical Research

Federated Learning (FL), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) have emerged as the most popular and fascinating technologies in the intelligent healthcare industry.

The traditional healthcare system is centered on centralized agents providing raw data. As a result, this system still has significant risks and problems. When combined with AI, the system would consist of several agent collaborators capable of successfully connecting with their intended host.

Federated Learning, a novel distributed interactive AI paradigm, holds promise for smart healthcare since it allows several clients (such as hospitals) to engage in AI training while ensuring data privacy. FL’s noteworthy characteristic is that operates decentralized; it maintains communication based on a model in the selected system without exchanging raw data.

The combination of FL, AI, and XAI approaches has the potential to reduce the number of restrictions and issues in the healthcare system. As a consequence, the use of FL in smart healthcare might speed up medical research using AI while maintaining privacy.

The Federated Learning approach may be used to provide several enticing benefits in the development of smart healthcare. Local data, for example, are not necessary for training. To train other machine learning algorithms by mixing a large number of local datasets without transmitting data. During training, local Machine Learning (ML) models are trained on local heterogeneous datasets.

When opposed to traditional centralized learning, FL is also capable of delivering a good balance of precision and utility, as well as privacy enhancement. FL may also help to reduce communication costs, such as data latency and power transmission, connected with raw data transfer by avoiding the dumping of huge data quantities to the server.

We have solutions that use FL to link life science enterprises with world-class university academics and hospitals in order to exchange deep medical insights for drug discovery and development. The platform enables its partners to uncover siloed datasets while maintaining patient privacy and securing proprietary data by leveraging federated learning and cutting-edge collaborative AI technologies. This enables unprecedented cooperation to enhance patient outcomes by sharing high-value knowledge.

The platform has built a worldwide research network driven by federated learning, allowing data scientists to securely connect to decentralized, multi-party data sets and train AI models without the need for data pooling. When combined with fields of medicine specializing in diagnosis and treatment, scientists may use cutting-edge technology platforms to build potentially life-changing drugs for people all over the world.

For additional information on such solutions and emerging use cases in other areas, as well as cooperation and partnership opportunities, please contact us at open-innovator@quotients.com

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AI-based Voice Assistants for Healthcare Industry

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AI-based Voice Assistants for Healthcare Industry

Voice AI can play a great role in the healthcare industry, transforming day-to-day operations for healthcare providers, and patients, and ensuring compliance. With the advanced algorithm of machine learning and natural language processing, they can help in preventing physician burnout, eliminating transcription delays, reducing documentation, and enabling healthcare providers to concentrate on patient care.

Historically, a personal assistant or secretary would handle activities including taking dictation, reading aloud text or email messages, searching up phone numbers, scheduling, making phone calls and reminding the user of upcoming appointments. Currently, popular virtual assistants including Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana, carry out the user’s requests. This application software known as a virtual assistant can recognize natural language voice commands and performs tasks according to user requests.

Voice assistants can provide efficiencies that lessen effort and enhance care. Automation of repetitive operations, the removal of data stream obstacles, and a direct reduction in the time and effort required by care groups can be made possible by AI-powered voice assistants. Despite appearing in healthcare records and other databases, patient information is rarely captured throughout the patient journey. AI-powered patient insights with omnichannel voice insight, in this case, may also be used to generate value for the patient and the practitioner, whether it be through symptom checks, providing high-quality treatment, or enhancing outcomes.

One of the challenges for AI-powered voice assistants is the complex medical vocabulary, but there are solutions that are now offering better ergonomic data entry with good accuracy and robust medical vocabularies. Another challenge is that it is difficult to find the necessary datasets to train AI models for these kinds of jobs as the type of data utilized has a significant impact on AI. There could be restrictions on the tones, accents, and languages that these algorithms can comprehend in the early stages. But there are solutions available that do not need voice profile training, from any device, anywhere.

With easy-to-use features, these solutions can work with different clinical systems and maintain electronic health records, etc. The privacy issue is another factor that may be a cause of concern as it collects data, particularly biometric data like voice data. But the solutions are available that are HIPAA Compliant, GDPR Compliant and other with certifications that take care of these concerns. With easy-to-use features, these solutions can work with different clinical systems and maintain electronic health records, etc.

New tools and technologies are already starting to make waves across the healthcare system but the industry in general has been a slow adopter of these changes. Emerging technologies like genome sequencing, digital tools, and artificial intelligence (AI) hold great promise to transform the delivery of health services in the near future but healthcare needs to be digitized for these technologies to penetrate further. The digitization of healthcare procedures will lead to fresh perspectives and hasten the field’s research and innovation. AI-powered Voice recognition can help in this digitization of the healthcare industry while improving efficiency and bettering patient care.


To know more about these solutions please write to us at open-innovator@quotients.com