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Anshul Singh
Builder & Operator | Data & Hardware | ex-Apple, Tesla, Splunk
Anshul Singh is an accomplished business professional, having obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the prestigious National Institute of Technology Karnataka and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Singh's career in the tech industry has spanned multiple esteemed companies, beginning with software engineering at Intel Corporation and moving on to operations at Apple, program and product management at Tesla, and programs at Zoox, before eventually being appointed Director of Business Operations and Data Science and, later on, Director of International Expansion at Zume Inc. In addition, Singh currently serves as Senior Director of Global Business Operations at Splunk, where he leverages his extensive experience to lead the company toward continued success in the ever-evolving world of tech.
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In my digging for pro-active healthcare, I got into this: AI+IoT+Home: AI Health Home: Why isn't it a thing yet? 🏠🤖
We spend the most time at Home. Home is where we feel the safest. Home is where we feel the most comfortable and relaxed. Why isnt home able to help us be healthier?
This made me thinking: Imagine if your (smart) home could support you, help you live independently longer, and supports busy or new parents by having a health buddy on call 24/7.
Why hasn't anyone built a complete smart AI Health Home system yet (in the lines Ring Home Security System, or Apple ecosystem, etc)? We're still stuck with these wearables like Apple Watch, Fitbit, Jawbone, Oura Ring and so many of them. As a tech nerd, I love them, and have had them all, they are cool. They do add great value, stuff like: Emergencies, Fitness Tracking and some Health Insights!
But here's the thing - all of this still needs us to wear something, check an app, or actively do stuff. What I don't see is a 'home solution' that just runs in the background, keeping an eye on our health while being totally INVISIBLE. It only pops up when needed, ie 'IT JUST WORKS'!
Imagine a home with: Smart Sensors: Monitoring air quality, detecting falls, even analyzing your toilet waste ;) Cameras: Keeping an eye on your movements and activities AI Health Assistants: Like Alexa or Siri, but for your health Smart Mirrors: Giving you a quick health check-up at night and in the morning while you brush your teeth And so much more!
Like for so many other great and successful products, the tech for all this stuff also mostly exists. We've already got cameras, air purifiers, and smart speakers in our homes. With some tweaks and AI magic, these could become our health buddies.
We do need some serious security and privacy protection for this to work though. But those are solvable problems!
An invisible AI health guardian at home would be nice. Or does it freak you out a bit? (Did the movie 'Her' freak you out?)
If you are working on it, lets talk.
#AIHealthHome #SmartHealth #FutureOfWellness #HealthTech
Diving Deeper: AI and Predictive Health Analysis 🔍🩺
In my last post I talked about AI in healthcare. I wanna dig deeper into one of those areas: Predictive Health Analysis.
Why's it important? It shifts healthcare from reactive to proactive (being proactive should be a motto for (almost) everything in life, but it is especially critical when we talk about health). We're talking about catching health issues before symptoms show up. Isn't that the gold mine of staying healthy?
I remember that Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report, where they would catch the criminal even before they commit the crime! Proactive health care is kind of similar to that (Full Disclosure: I never actually watched that movie, watched the trailer many times, but somehow never got around to watching it)
I know lots of this is already happening right now, stuff like early detection of diseases, like people being pre-diabetic (one of them is me), or early-stage cancer detection. Machine learning algorithms are getting pretty good at this, to spot patterns in medical data.
But I think there's still a long road ahead here. There's so much data that exists, and with progress in genetics research (including cost of sequencing a human genome, which has dropped from $100 million in 2001 to less than $1,000 today!), there's an even higher possibility of catching stuff early. Deep learning models, especially Neural Networks, are doing some amazing things with genetic data and medical imaging.
Now there are two big issues that I see here:
- Health data isn't readily available (one is a confidentiality issue, second is competition)
- Do the pharma companies really want proactive health care, which would mean their revenues go down!
I bet there is a solution to these two issues, we just gotta crack it. (If you have, I wanna hear it!)
Now combine all that data gold mine with real time individual health stats from wearables and IoT! Imagine now every individual has a health AI assistant (whatever the medium: mobile app, a device like Humane AI Pin, or something else), which makes sure that you are 100% healthy, throughout your life! We could use reinforcement learning here to personalize health recommendations. (wishful thinking, I know, but as they say: Go BIG or go HOME). I got interested in this space while researching for my parents, and then stumbled upon the aging baby boomer population challenges. But this is now about people of all ages. We can start anywhere, and impact everyone. Natural Language Processing could even help make all this tech accessible to older folks who might not be tech-savvy.
If you're working on something in predictive health, let's talk.
#AIinHealthcare #PredictiveHealth #GeneticHealth #… #MachineLearning
