Is anyone using AI to manage their health?

[Alies Maybee]

I am being asked to talk on AI in a number of places mostly Toronto area. I don't use AI for health since I don't have a condition but have heard some of you do use it. I am most interested in learning the good, the bad and the ugly.

Please let me know and we can have further conversations. Alies

[Sheri McCready]

@Alies-Maybee yes, i have multiple health issues related to a genetic defect. I would be interested in a conversation

[Alies Maybee]

@Sheri-McCready do you actually use AI currently to manage your health? Or are you hoping to learn how to?

[Joan Tu]

Hi Alies, I do use AI to manage my health, however I use it for broader collective information purposes more so than for individual purposes.

Here are some examples:

Collective purpose: I used ChatGPT as well as other online sources to create this set of dashboards to show the differences between different common skin conditions that clinicians are confused about. (I am a person with a skin condition with other family members who have skin conditions.) This serves the broader scientific community as well as patients. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/joan.lee.tu/vizzes

Individual purpose: I use AI tools occasionally to search for health advice information, for example, about minor ailments or nuisance issues. I also use Facebook and sometimes it shows me posts related to these issues with people's comments that have been very helpful in some cases. This is a form of using AI as well.

The biggest issue that I have encountered, which scientists have noted, is that these AI tools often omit information that the user would have wanted included. The omissions are significant. I see a lot of posts about the limitations of AI tools for health purposes on LinkedIn. I could try to dig up some of the more informative posts, however that may take some time.

[Don Grant]

@Alies-Maybee, yes. I have successful experiences in this realm and I’m happy to have a private chat

[Kim Giroux]

@Alies-Maybee I have recently been using it extensively and would be happy to chat.

[Cristyana Aloysious]

@Alies-Maybee

Hi Alies,

I am very active in the AI space and have been recently creating a resource for Patients to use if they were to use AI in their healthcare. I would be happy to connect and/or support your talks.

[Alies Maybee]

@Sheri-McCready I will send you an email with some times to talk. Hope this works for you and many thanks.

[Alies Maybee]

@Joan-Tu thanks so much for sharing, very helpful.

[Alies Maybee]

@Don-Grant I will send you an email with some times to talk. Hope this works for you and many thanks.

[Alies Maybee]

@Kim-Giroux I will send you an email with some times to talk. Hope this works for you and many thanks.

[Alies Maybee]

@Cristyana-Aloysious as always, a pleasure to hear from you. I will contact you by email to follow up.