Special Report

Future of AI and Digital Healthcare

In this joint commission from The Lancet and Financial Times, we explore how AI and other digital advancements are being harnessed to improve healthcare in the world’s poorest regions

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Covid-19 response can result in the health systems we need

Pandemic highlights ethical and structural concerns over digital governance

AI set to transform healthcare in world’s poorer regions

Concerns remain over lack of regulation, governance and equity

Big Tech searches for a way back into healthcare

Despite past failures, Google and other tech giants see great promise in the sector

Covid-19 pandemic accelerates digital health reforms

Privacy rules loosened as push towards e-healthcare gathers pace

Biotechs harness AI in battle against Covid-19

Drug discovery and development groups combine resources to fight pandemic

Health systems worldwide receive wake-up call

AI is helping to diagnose, treat and curb the spread of Covid-19

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Tech offers LatAm 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

S 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

Health data value’s challenge for policymakers

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

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