Huiyun Tang’s Post

Check out the latest findings by Huiyun Tang and Anastasia Sergeeva, both REMEDIS members, on user perceptions of health misinformation. Their insights shed light on crucial aspects of misinformation and suggests several design recommandations. 📈🔍 Access the study here: https://lnkd.in/eUp9MRU6 #HealthMisinformation

Ylan Kazi wondering if its possible to tie self-directed improvements in personal health to specific financial incentives such as lower insurance premiums or taxes? Are creative ideas like these being considered? The article contains typical high level VC speak with lofty verbiage but is short on details. Annual Medicare spending is roughly $3000 per capita currently aggregating over $ trillion and growing like a weed. How does this country survive financially considering an aging demographic without employing some sort of gamification or financial incentives at the individual level and getting us all in the "game"?

The potential #health #equity impacts of this collaboration could be transformative — albeit amidst oodles of pretty massive concerns — huge #privacy risks, inability to test for effectiveness before scaling (the model can’t work w/o tsunamis of data), etc.etc.etc. “Using #AI in this way would also scale and democratize the life-saving benefits of improving daily habits and address growing health inequities. Those with more resources are already in on the power of behavior change, with access to trainers, chefs, and life coaches. But since chronic diseases—like diabetes and cardiovascular disease—are distributed unequally across demographics, a hyper-personalized AI health coach would help make healthy behavior changes easier and more accessible.” Arianna Huffington + Sam Altman — https://lnkd.in/eAFzX8Qx

I will be very interested to see where this goes. Changing human behavior around health is difficult, particularly with the senior population. Additionally, affordability of healthcare is becoming more challenging. Healthcare organizations might follow this model after seeing the results. #ai #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #gpt4 https://lnkd.in/gyw8p-QD

A staggering 129 million Americans have at least one major chronic disease—and 90% of our $4.1 trillion in annual health care spending goes toward treating these physical and mental-health conditions. That financial and personal toll is only projected to grow. We know this is unsustainable. But there are solutions, because health outcomes are shaped by more than just medical care or genes. Behavior change can be a miracle drug, both for preventing disease and for optimizing the treatment of disease. With AI-driven personalized behavior change, we have the chance to finally reverse the trend lines on chronic diseases. Achieving this vision requires collaboration. Policymakers need to create a regulatory environment that fosters AI innovation while safeguarding privacy. Health care providers need to integrate AI into their practices while ensuring that these tools meet rigorous standards for safety and efficacy. And individuals need to be fully empowered through AI coaching to better manage their daily health, with assurances that these technologies are reliable and that their personal health data will be handled responsibly. This collective effort, with robust privacy and security safeguards, can transform health care, benefiting millions of people around the world. #ai #healthcare #wellness https://lnkd.in/e8s-m4WQ

🤔 Would you trust an AI-powered health advisor to recommend personalized behavior changes for you? Entrepreneur Arianna Huffington and Sam Altman (OpenAI) announced the new startup called Thrive AI Health - they want to introduce a new customizable, AI-powered health advisor 💡 Because - according to one recent analysis - roughly 80% of chronic diseases can be prevented through lifestyle changes. How does it work? ✅ The platform will fine-tune its health recommendations according to your environmental circumstance and medical history. ✅ You’ll be able to feed it biometric and lab data as well as personal preferences, like your favorite foods — or the days when you have the least time to do physical activity. ✅ It will then identify which lifestyle changes could have the biggest impact on your overall health. 💠 Example recommendation: “Swap your third afternoon soda with water and lemon; go on a 10-minute walk with your child after you pick them up from school at 3:15 p.m.; start your wind-down routine at 10 p.m. since you have to get up at 6 a.m. the next morning to make your flight.” 👉 This is supposed to be more precise than the generic "stretch every 10 minutes" suggestions we get from our smartwatches. To me, it's all common sense. I'm holding off on my AI personal health advisor for now. https://lnkd.in/gVrGFSH3

I applaud tech companies for trying to address healthcare challenges that have become existential over the decades. Most of these initiatives fail, however, because they expect people to change behaviors learned over decades by engaging with apps, reliably using gadgets, caring about nudges, and dutifully reporting their moods and feelings - sustainably day after day for the rest of their lives. While this can work for the most motivated and disciplined among us, it is difficult for those of us who are creatures of habit, need the most help, and/or consume the most healthcare. Most of us don’t wake up every morning bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to deal with our health conditions, enthralled by the ingenuity of digital health tools, eager to earn the next badge and rise to the next level. We wake up to do what we’ve always done - live the lives we’ve grown accustomed to and, if we’re lucky, comfortable with. And when we invariably develop chronic illnesses, especially as we age, we are even less likely to engage with tech that wants us to change who we are. I hope OpenAI will learn from history so they don’t also run away when the red ink grows, stakeholders get restless, progress feels elusive, and “healthcare is horribly broken” becomes the only way to explain their failure. We can bring “outside the box” thinking to healthcare by first understanding it and then focusing our investment on solving real issues with impact. Let's use our capital to redesign the hard stuff - rather than play at the edges. And be humble and smart to learn from those who have tried before us. Let’s first understand the user's needs, and then develop the technology - rather than hammers looking for nails. My bias is to let the technology be as invisible as possible, doing the monitoring work in the background so that we can make the most of care providers’ limited time and resources - and help people without requiring them to change how they live. We’re cracking that nut, and I’d welcome any technology partner who’d like to join us. Kaveh Safavi Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA Cris Ross Bob Ghafouri Asheesh Saksena Steve Wretling Blain Newton Charlotte Yeh Lainie Muller https://lnkd.in/epCU-yMX

I saw Arianna Huffington share this article that her and OpenAI’s Sam Altman collaberated on. As someone who works with individuals on the daily where behaviour change is the essence of the work, I’m intrigued by this possibility. I do have some questions: Hypertargeted suggestions on actions sounds good on a superficial level, but does it allow for the nuances of the human experience? Will it “understand” when someone’s life has experienced significant upheaval or change? Do past actions necessarily dictate future actions? Will it provide the relatedness and empathy a human is able to provide another? Will there be transparency on the scientific data used to train these models? Anything that helps people improve their healthspan and longevity is certainly worth leveraging. So time will tell. Watch this space… #AIinHealthcare #PreventativeHealth #HealthcareTransformation

Nudge theory is at the core of many #AI and #Digital experiences in healthcare. Nudges can guide patients and clinicians toward healthier decisions, but their success isn't guaranteed. By addressing both behavioral cues and systemic barriers, we can unlock greater potential for improved outcomes in healthcare. #PatientCare #DigitalTransformation #DigitalHealth #BehavioralScience"

Is social media really all bad when it comes to encouraging health-supporting behaviours? We see an awful lot of content and research flagging the negative effects of social media - from hideous misinformation on TikTok to the detrimental effects on body image. YET there is also a steady flow of research findings showing this same intensely engaging power and the prioritisation of the opinions of peers and network connections could be harnessed for good. 🍎 For example this latest look at how behaviours 'infect' social networks way beyond those people you see IRL; and in the comments I share the link to a study revealing how people following a healthy eating account on Instagram ate 1.4 more portions of fruit and veg per day and 0.8 fewer energy-dense items such as a sugar-packed soft drink or snack - surely a win in the UK where only around 25-30% of people currently manage to eat the recommended 5 a day? What are your experiences of the positive health opportunities from social media and networks - and any concerns or dangers you would flag in the world of health and self-management? 🔊 AVAILABILITY FOR NEW PROJECTS: If you want to talk about ways to use your content across all channels to support helpful behaviours for your audience's health and wellbeing, get in touch! Or nudge someone in your network who you think might benefit. I have many years of experience creating/collaborating on new product ideas/MVPs, plus user-centred strategy and content that: 1️⃣ engages people (from my years as a national magazine/website editor in the media world and recent projects for health retail giant Holland and Barrett) 2️⃣ is based on evidence (from my years as the Head of Health Content for British Heart Foundation) 3️⃣ embeds behaviour change techniques to activate people in real life (from my years working with health psychology specialists to deliver patient support programmes) 4️⃣ is planned and executed to make the most of small resources and big ambitions (from my years working with start-ups such as Adora Digital Health, Bold Health and as Chief Content Ed at Healthily, plus my role as advisory Fellow with ZINC) https://lnkd.in/eWk5H4f9 Jo Wheatley Nicola Way Harriet Hall Lucy Dryburgh Jenny Hargrave Lawrence Bate Rachael Parkman Lina Eliasson PhD CPsychol Christina Jackson Dr Jessica Walburn Danny Hearn Philip Twine Louis Childs Daniel Field Jing-mei Huang Hannah Wrathall Kathrin Folkendt Emma Jarvis Karli Büchling Elena Mustatea Jossy Obi Onwude, MD FAIDH Laura Kennedy PhD MBA Maria Sullivan Michelle Roberts Lina Chan Linda Cowie Lindsay Gormley Rachel Downey