BIOE 60: Scalable and Distributed Digital Health

Course Description

The combination of the internet, phones/wearables, and diagnostic/generative AI allow fundamentally different approaches to healthcare to be conceived. Contemporary healthcare still relies heavily on human doctors, which restricts the number of people that can be helped, limits scaling and quality, and sets a basic cost floor on services. The purpose of this seminar is to explore a potential all-digital tech stack for healthcare, including diagnostic AI, data collection at the edge, and privacy-preserving compute. We will hear from industry experts and startup founders, and consider technical gaps as well as legal/societal barriers to ubiquitous adoption of healthcare provided primarily by computers.