Future of AI and Digital Healthcare

More from this Special Report

• Tech offers Latin America prospect of fairer healthcare

  Digital innovations aimed at improving access for region’s poorer communities

  
• Drugmakers get hooked on data

  Pharma groups hope troves of patient records hold key to faster cures and bigger profits

  
• Time for healthcare to make better use of data

  Machine learning is only effective if it is based on accurate sources

  
• How data analysis helped Mozambique stem a cholera outbreak

  Silicon Valley start-up Zenysis drafted in to help authorities tackle disease

  
• AI in Africa healthcare falls short of potential

  Continent faces obstacles of infrastructure and ethics

  
• In charts: healthcare technology in low-income countries

  Lack of funding results in a shortage of resources, while doctors are overstretched

  
• Temperature tracker offers sea change for vaccines

  Wireless sensors used to prevent life-saving medicines from spoiling in transit

  
• MomConnect lets expectant mothers know what to expect

  South African antenatal texting service is being replicated across the continent

  
• India turns to AI to counter skilled healthcare staff shortage

  Start-ups offer hope of quality care but critics worry about data privacy

  
• Africa races to fill telecoms ‘not spots’

  Resourceful medical services use 3G and 2G signals to overcome poor network coverage

  
• South Africa’s digital health travails provide useful lessons

  Country yet to match ambition for data-fed, unified system with investment in skills and infrastructure

  
• App takes aim at ‘secrecy and taboo’ around menstruation

  Unicef-backed Oky looks to dispel myths and overcome stigma around periods

  
• Tanzania’s digital doctor learns to speak Swahili

  AI chatbot symptom checker bolsters African nation’s stretched healthcare system

  
• India healthcare turns to big data to protect the masses

  AI-driven app proves a powerful tool to contain coronavirus, but critics voice privacy fears

  
• Uganda tackles diseases with a phone call

  Call for Life’s system automatically phones HIV patients to check their welfare

  
• The dance app that helps assess Parkinson’s

  Mobile app based on South African Vosho craze repurposed to tackle debilitating disease

  
• Value from health data creates dilemma for society

  Questions over AI’s potential in poorer countries also relevant to western healthcare systems

  
• Harnessing the power of AI for global health

  Lancet/FT Commission examines how to match new technology with suitable regulation

  
• Send us your ideas on how technology can improve healthcare

  The FT is exploring how technology can improve the health of the poorest people in the world