Father of AI says that in health, almost everything is good. Ignacio H. Medrano, founder and Chief Medical Officer:   “ LinkedIn is an amazing place. Oh, if I didn’t depend on it to sell projects, you can bet I would not be there… Professional gossip, cheap advice. What a place.   Once, I was listening to the TV in the background, and they were in a debate with famous cinema directors and TV executives. That was when Netflix was starting to emerge.   They were saying that platforms were a scam and that the good stuff was theirs. Traditional TV and cinema. That the movies an ..read more

Why AI is going to kill Google. Ignacio H. Medrano, founder and Chief Medical Officer:   “ Google is going to die. I think. Most likely, you also thought about it.   I have been thinking about it for years. How many more years will Google last? I didn’t have an answer.   But I got it within 2.5 minutes of using ChatGPT. So I bought Microsoft stocks. They have appreciated by 60% to this day. I bought a small amount, so it doesn’t change much for me. But I don’t do these things to make money, but rather to make my accurate (and inaccurate) predictions tangible. That’s why I b ..read more

The error of patenting an AI algorithm. Ignacio H. Medrano, founder and Chief Medical Officer:   “ When I was a resident, I had a very smart and funny colleague (who later coincidentally worked at Savana for a while) who talked about the “circle of death.”  She referred to iatrogenesis.    To patients who were relatively well, but due to following “the protocol,” we would admit them or send them to the ICU, triggering a catastrophe.    I thought about it recently when a relative of mine was found to have asymptomatic metastases from a kidney primary tumor he ..read more

What to do with AI-intruders. Listen to what Matilde Sánchez Conde, an Infectious Disease physician tells me in an email: It bothers me that I think I’ve been a little ahead of all this, wanting to do things like defining the fragility model for more than 10 years now…it’s now the bandwagon everyone’s jumping on, and despite having a clear understanding of it from the beginning, I’ve never been able to get funding for anything in this line. At first, nobody understood it, and now everyone’s an expert.   That’s right, dear internet friend. Matilde is suffering… (drumroll…) the innovat ..read more

Unknown reason why AI research fails. We have no freaking idea, but we imagine that if we have a restaurant and cook well, we only have the beginning. We also need to manage personnel and suppliers well. And we suppose that many people will fail because they only think about the first part. That’s what a child would think. The second part is what someone adult thinks about and often suffers when it’s too late. This is what often happens to us in calls and meetings. When there are people who believe that the key to doing good Real World Evidence with AI is to apply very good mathematical m ..read more

Utility of AI that no one thinks about. We’re going to tell you something. We’ll tell you and then you can do whatever you want with the information. You’ll do it anyway, so whatever. We believe that one of the most amazing things about AI is that it will save a lot of expensive tests. This is important because when people think of AI, they think of improving diagnosis. They think of an AI that can detect a polyp or stratify risks. Or they think about risk stratification. An AI that tells us that these patients here are more likely to decompensate and then we call them. All of that is gre ..read more

But why is it actually better to conduct research with AI? My father used to print emails, underline them, and file them in blue folders. He must have been going through a digital transformation. Because most people transform things into digital to do the same thing they used to do by hand. But spending more money and having a few bad times. In other words, they believe that going digital means doing the same thing as before, but wired. That’s because they think of the word digital: diiiiiigiiiiitaaaaaal. But they don’t think of the other: transformation. Trannnnssssformation. Transformaa ..read more

Ethics Committee encourages investigating without consent. The day I realized I had ADHD, I started crying. I cried and cried like a child and it took me a while to stop. It was the relief of tears. It was my first day of rotation in the Neuropediatrics clinic. The pediatrician started asking the parents questions to see if that child had it. And I realized that I answered positively to all the questions. It turns out that during College I hadn’t noticed or studied it or anything. So that day, all of a sudden, I understood why I had lost countless keys, wallets, flights, and girlfriends i ..read more

2.5 million patients analyzed with AI.   When you watch an interview with a well-known actor, you realize that one thing they have in common is that they tend to be quite shy. This may come as a shock at first, but what happens is that good actors are precisely shy people who became actors to hide their shyness behind a character. It is as if, while they are acting, they rest from their social anxiety because the mask protects them.     These paradoxes or psychological compensations are interesting and they are everywhere…    and I think that’s what happe ..read more

Article about AI and Value Based Contracting. We don’t know if you know that Russian soldiers were caught flirting with Ukrainian women on Tinder. That was in February. And since they were still doing it in September, Ukraine used hackers to impersonate these women and thus located Russian army positions. This reflection on limitless human stupidity reminds us once again that digital data is and will be around. And that its use can be beneficial or dangerous, depending. And that to walk on the Internet mindless is like letting people drive without a license. Or like crossing the s ..read more