How Emerging Tech Is Getting Personal

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“I am not here as a doctor; I am here to represent the patient’s perspective. I’m one of the people, a diabetic patient, who is empowered by an emerging technology tool,” said A/Prof Siow before making a presentation on the BSL Home Monitoring Implanted Glucose Sensor.

He said because he had a diabetes monitor himself and had read a lot about diabetes, he knew the technology worked, but patients still had to be convinced: “For the patient, the first thing is trust. They don’t trust a chat bot. I think they still want to see a doctor.”

Dr Kar explained that new technologies were looking to deliver hyper-personalised medicine and would use AI, armed with multiple sensors, to treat very, very unique or rare diseases. He hoped that conversational AI could be improved too: “We will be possibly able to get into a much more concrete way of leading to conversational AI, better chatbots, and then give better outputs to the patient… What would be very important in this is to actually use it with the human in the loop.”

“There’s a lot of hype about hyper-personalised information, but all this ...
... information needs to come together, you can’t just collect all these data and keep them in data silos that don’t talk to each other,” advised A/Prof Ngiam.

He said interfaces and backgrounds had to be considered when implementing personalised services and added that the way to achieve greater integration was to use automation and modular services.

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