Just a reminder why it is so important to regulate advanced medical technologies and products! On the picture you can see a man selling “One Night Cough Syrup” in the late 1800s. That time, there weren’t any strict labeling laws regarding medications. The product contained alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine! It was available over the counter and promised to eliminate your cough in one night so you could sleep. You can bet it did but at what price? The US Congress finally passed the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 which required manufacturers to disclose the ingredients in their products. Imagine using AI and generative AI this way today only because no strict regulations are available. Just think about the harm it can cause to patients and society in general.

Here are real-world healthcare scenarios that employ generative AI from a recent IEEE paper. Authors provide a clear picture about practical applications from medical imaging and data augmentation to drug discovery and clinical trial optimization: a. medical imaging b. drug discovery and development c. personalized patient treatment d. medical simulation and training e. clinical trial optimization f. mental health support g. healthcare operations and resource management h. medical chatbots i. human movement simulation and analysis j. insurance pre-authorization/prior authorization k. medical triage l. text generation and summarization m. virtual rehabilitation and rehabilitation robotics n. adverse drug reaction (adr) prediction o. synthetic non-image data augmentation/generation p. biomarker identification q. disease progression modeling Full paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/st…