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Imagine a world where a patient’s first contact with primary care is through a robot. Digital Health Futurist Maneesh Juneja believes that this is a likely scenario for general practice in the near future, if not an inevitable consequence of staff shortages and shifts in public expectation. In this episode he describes how near we are to developing and using “caring robots” and discusses some of the ethical issues as well as the barriers and benefits to digital health.

Show Notes

Maneesh explains his involvement in digital health (50secs)

The shift in power occasioned by advances in digital health (1min 44secs)

Will machines be caring for humans in the future? (2mins 40secs)

Machines versus people; necessity or choice? (3mins 42secs)

Is the technology available yet? (5mins 35secs)

Can machines ever be compassionate? (6mins 45secs)

Is the technology likely to become too intrusive (8mins 23secs)

How ready are we to engage with artificial intelligence? (9mins 55secs)

Where will future developments happen? The role of the UK in ethics (10mins 58secs)

The holding of data (11mins 49secs)

Owning our own data (12mins 58secs)

The accountability of robots (14mins 17secs)

The impact of the development of AI on general practice and the patient/clinician relationship (15mins 27secs)

Heading towards a relationship with machines in general practice (17mins 27secs)

General practice supporting patients to work with technology (18mins 32secs)

General practice thriving in the future (19mins 32secs)

General practice thriving in the future (20mins 31secs)

You can find Maneesh’s TEDX talk “You can’t care for patients, you’re not human!” here

Find out more at maneeshjuneja.com or contact him via twitter @maneeshjuneja

Maneesh is also happy to engage via Skype or LinkedIn