The Power of Data
This type of data comes from patients' visits, tests, and treatments and helps doctors make better decisions.
What is health data?
AI stands for this, and it refers to machines or programs that can think and learn.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
“First, do no harm” reflects this ethical principle.
What is non-maleficence?
This term describes using an existing drug to treat a different disease.
What is drug repurposing?
A smartwatch that tracks your heart rate is an example of this kind of health tech.
What is a wearable device?
True or false: All medical data is already perfectly clean and ready to use in research.
What is false?
True or false: AI always gets medical decisions right and doesn’t make mistakes.
What is false?
Doctors must always try to do good for the patient—this is called ___.
What is beneficence?
This abbreviation stands for the therapy that re-infuses expanded tumor-fighting immune cells back into the patient.
What is TIL therapy (Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte therapy)?
Wearable devices can help doctors monitor patients without needing them to do this.
What is come into the clinic or hospital?
The Apple Watch study at Stanford helped detect these irregular heart patterns in kids that other monitors sometimes missed.
What are arrhythmias?
This type of AI learns patterns by looking at lots of data, like recognizing faces or diseases, instead of being told exactly what to do.
What is machine learning?
When patients make their own choices about their care, this principle is being respected.
What is autonomy?
TILs, a type of immunotherapy, use a patient’s own version of these cells to fight cancer.
What are T cells?
Digital health technology is especially helpful for patients living in these areas.
What are remote or rural areas?
To protect patient privacy, researchers must remove this kind of sensitive personal information.
What is identifying information or PHI (Protected Health Information)?
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT fall under this AI “era,” the third major one in healthcare.
What is generative AI?
Treating people fairly, no matter their background, reflects this core bioethics value.
What is justice?
In 2024, the FDA approved this first TIL therapy for treating a type of skin cancer.
What is melanoma?
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Stanford’s massive health data system used for research is called this.
What is STARR?
When computers and people work together in medicine, this term describes the partnership.
What is augmented intelligence?
AI and new tech in medicine raise questions about fairness and privacy—this is why ___ is so important.
What is medical ethics?
AI can help find new uses for old drugs by studying this part of a protein, where medicines bind.
What is the binding site or binding pocket?
The Apple Watch study at Stanford helped detect these irregular heart patterns in kids that other monitors sometimes missed.
What are arrhythmias?