Technology's Impact on Health

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Objective

I can analyze the positive and negative impacts of technology on personal, family, and community health.

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Warm-up video

TEDx Talks · 8:37Vetted channel

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    AI can help personalize health care, make hospitals more efficient, and improve access to health care by providing accurate decision-making tools.

  2. 2

    Existing regulation frameworks aren’t designed for AI software because AI software has the intrinsic ability to learn and evolve over time.

  3. 3

    AI developers have a huge responsibility to make sure that data bias doesn’t exist and that their models are trained on diverse and robust data sets, representative of the entire population.

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Practice

12 questions

1

According to the video, what is one way AI can improve healthcare?

2

How does AI learn to make decisions or predict outcomes?

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Exit ticket

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Describe one positive and one negative impact of using AI in healthcare, based on the video. Analyze how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

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