Medical trends for 2024 include generative AI in healthcare, multimodal AI, at-home blood tests, a rise in digital therapeutics, photoplethysmography (PPG) for blood pressure, and AI avatars. Generative AI will assist patients, while multimodal AI hubs will process multiple types of data. At-home blood testing is developing alongside do-it-yourself blood draws and blood-drawing robots, making diagnostic tools more accessible. Digital therapeutics deliver health solutions via software. PPG will enable real-time blood pressure readings, and AI avatars will aid education.

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Microsoft's Chief Scientist, Jaime Teevan, highlights the importance of prompt engineering and natural language conversations in optimising work with generalised AI (GenAI). Recent AI advances promise significant productivity improvements. Teevan's work involves researching and managing post-Covid work practices, microproductivity, and personalised search algorithms.

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Biden administration champions responsible AI use in healthcare aiming to improve health outcomes, while ensuring user safety and privacy. Leading healthcare providers and payers announced commitment to fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe AI use. AI prompts healthcare improvements such as advanced care access, outcome coordination, burnout reduction. However, its misuse risks biased diagnoses, privacy breaches. Mitigating risks could enable beneficial transformation in health delivery, could reduce healthcare costs. AI capabilities include analyzing billions of medical images efficiently, streamlining drug development, and easing administrative work. Private sector's commitment crucial to progress sustainable AI.

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Apple secretly tracked, surveilled users via push notifications due to undisclosed government order. Gag order lifted after Senator Ron Wyden urged Justice Department allow Apple, Google disclose push notification record requests. Apple, Google required to share user push notification information, often with only a subpoena. Now public, Apple updating its transparency reports. Even encrypted messaging apps vulnerable due to unencrypted push notifications, which could link user to their Apple ID. Apple updated Legal Process Guidelines to include push notifications. Google stricter than Apple, requires court order. Apple, Google provided metadata related to push notifications to foreign, U.S. government agencies. Push notifications considered a 'privacy nightmare'.

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