A new artificial intelligence-powered clinical decision support system developed by Google and NASA aims to help astronauts diagnose and treat medical issues during space missions – even when real-time communication with Earth is unavailable, said Chris Hein, field CTO of Google Public Sector.<\/p>\n
The Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant, or CMO-DA, that’s being piloted by NASA, uses a tuned large language model trained on more than 150 data sources and about 250 common spaceflight-related medical conditions encountered in low or zero gravity, he said. <\/p>\n
CMO-DA can work in disconnected environments and handle both text and voice queries, Hein said in an interview with Information Security Media Group.<\/p>\n
“There are going to be a lot of times where astronauts are going to be disconnected or far away from the ability to do live sessions or diagnostic sessions with doctors here on Earth,” he said. <\/p>\n
“So, what if we can take some of the intelligence and the know-how that you get from a doctor, embed that into the models and then make that so they can live in that kind of disconnected environment on a spaceship,” he said. “Almost like a doctor in a box that can come with them where they happen to go, and bring that level of expertise.”<\/p>\n
In this audio interview with Information Security Media Group (see audio link below photo), Hein also discussed: <\/p>\n
How CMO-DA is addressing potential data privacy and security issues;
\nNext steps for CMO-DA deployment by NASA;
\nPotential applications of the CMO-DA concept in other settings, such as for military and remote healthcare uses.<\/p>\n
Hein, a tenured Google employee of over 10 years, is the field chief technology officer at Google Public Sector. He brings a blend of technical expertise – honed as a former vice president of technology in the private sector – and a deep understanding of the critical missions of government and educational institutions. In his role at Google, Hein assists IT leaders in navigating the transformative shift to an AI-driven world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new artificial intelligence-powered clinical decision support system developed by Google and NASA aims to help astronauts diagnose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[345,16883,20667,20668,133,85,46,3442,125],"class_list":["post-22356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-astronauts","tag-chris-hein","tag-doctor-in-a-box","tag-google","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nasa","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}