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Pulse Check: September 2, 2023

Pulse Check: September 2, 2023

Twitter training a pharm AI?

the scanner
September 02, 2023

🩺 News pulse check:

AI is turning medical jargon into plain language for patients.
GPT is sometimes fine and sometimes bad at answering cancer questions from patients.
Researchers in the UK used AI to generate a cancer treatment in less than a year. Will it actually work?
Twitter—sorry, X—trained an AI for pathologists.
Could AI decide if you get pain meds or not?

🤖 Job board

Plenful is hiring a part-time data quality specialist (healthcare AI).
Hippocratic AI is hiring a senior NLP research scientist.
Mayo Clinic is hiring a principal product manager - generative AI.
Oracle is hiring a Director of AI/ML.
Tufts Commonwealth Radiology Associates is hiring a Body Imaging Chief.

🔗 Recommended reading

Emotional dry cleaning: A writer helps doctors share their stories — and their pain

In virtual writing workshops, Laurel Braitman has created a place where health care workers can feel safe wrestling with the continuous gut-punches of working the frontlines of a pandemic.

www.statnews.com/2023/08/30/laurel-braitman-memoir-health-care-workers-writing-workshops

✨ Something to play with: Oasis takes all your verbal asdfghjkl; and organizes/outlines it in writing.

✅ Seen and heard:

I'm collecting examples of patient-, survivor-, and caregiver-led companies and organizations as a tip list for investors, leaders, and policymakers who want to level up their health care game:
— Susannah Fox (@SusannahFox)
5:14 PM • Aug 13, 2023

💡 TIL: A little boy named Bobby Dunbar disappeared but was later found and returned to his family…or was he?