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This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues
around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social
media and any related matters.
I will also try to highlight ADHA Propaganda when I come upon it.
Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were
dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It’s pretty sad!
Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or
value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile
and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published
that I have come upon, and found interesting.
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https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/dishonest-tiktok-and-instagram-influencers-face-accc-crackdown-20230126-p5cfry.html
Dishonest Tiktok and Instagram influencers face ACCC crackdown
January 27, 2023 — 12.01am
Dishonest
TikTok and Instagram influencers are facing a crackdown by the nation’s consumer
watchdog.
The
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started looking at
more than 100 influencers in response to more than 150 tip-offs from consumers.
The blitz comes after celebrity influencer Kim Kardashian was slapped with a $US1
million (close to $1.5 million) fine in the US for failing to disclose that she
was paid $US250,000 for promoting a cryptocurrency.
ACCC
Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said most of the tip-offs were about influencers
in beauty, lifestyle, parenting and fashion, who had failed to
disclose their affiliation with the product or company they were promoting.
“The
number of tip-offs reflects the community concern about the ever-increasing
number of manipulative marketing techniques on social media, designed to
exploit or pressure consumers into purchasing goods or services,” she said.
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https://www.afr.com/technology/will-the-sudden-rise-of-useful-ai-shake-our-cosy-white-collar-world-20230126-p5cfnj
How the sudden rise of AI is shaking your white-collar
world
Generative AI
has caused a storm by automating high-paying professional skills. Now Aussie
businesses are trying to determine how to get the best out of it.
Paul Smith Technology editor
Jan 27, 2023
– 2.05pm
In a week
during which Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella,
warned investors not to be too optimistic about the company’s immediate
prospects as he embarked on a rampant cost-cutting initiative that would cut
10,000 jobs, he also saw it fit to
write a $US10 billion ($14 billion) cheque for a big stake in the world’s
current hottest start-up, OpenAI.
Microsoft
aims to position itself at the vanguard of a new era in artificial
intelligence, with huge influence over the rapidly developing field of
generative AI. The technology promises to usher in changes in how doctors and
teachers deliver medical and educational advice, and has lawyers, marketers,
artists and other white-collar professionals worrying about where they fit in.
Nick
Abrahams, global leader of the technology & innovation group at law
firm Norton Rose Fulbright, says companies need to be acting now to figure
out how to harness the potential of generative AI.
“There is a
saying that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic,” says Nick Abrahams, a Sydney-based lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright, who
studies how companies incorporate “next-big-thing” ideas.
“Generative
AI solutions such as ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 are like magic to me.”
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/never-give-out-your-email-again-with-iphone-privacy-features/news-story/753b10e9871a666b5ed3ed1f07159bff
Never give out your
email again with iPhone privacy features
By Joseph Lam
11:47AM
January 27, 2023
Your data is
not your own. At least that of which has been gathered about you via your
online browsing activity, your social media accounts and the dozens of online
competitions you’ve entered with your email address among other personal
details and are still yet to win.
And while you
could spend all day wondering just how to find out exactly what data companies
have gathered about you and what you can do to remove or delete as much as
possible, your time may be better spent limiting what data can be collected
from you from this point forward.
Within the
Apple ecosystem, there are two relatively new features which have benefits that
all users should consider.
These
features can limit tracking of your IP address (the address of a device
connected to the internet) as well as allow email function without giving away
your email address – allowing you enter all the competitions you like while
being able to stop those emails whenever you wish.
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https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/australia-named-the-country-4th-most-at-risk-of-cyber-crime-in-the-world.html
Friday, 27 January 2023 10:30
Australia named the country 4th most at-risk of cyber
crime in the world
By Gordon
Peters
Australia is
the fourth country most at risk of cyber crime in the world, acording to
research by proxy network provider Proxyrack.
Proxyrack
says that its research
has calculated the rate per 100,000 in each country to find out where
cybercrime is happening the most and Australli had 2,204 victims in its
population of 26.2 million and 8 victims per 100,00 people.
“Everyone
knows the importance of staying safe online and amongst all the great things
that the internet has brought us, it has also presented opportunities for
hackers and scammers to make an illegitimate living.,” notes Proxyrack .
“There are
many things you can do to stay safe online, such as using a residential proxy and
installing anti-virus software.
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/ai-spells-trouble-for-creatives-about-time-too/news-story/0fd5a01b0fa2e8f09f4294f694b84600
AI spells trouble for
creatives – about time too
By James Marriott
Columnist,
The Times
The Times
11:00AM
January 26, 2023
Vanity,
egotism, a desire to be thought more interesting at parties . . . Perhaps I
could have been more honest with the room full of students who wanted to know
what had “inspired” me to go into journalism.
But surveying
those youthful faces, I felt compelled to strike an idealistic note. So yes,
while it’s true that I love books and ideas, a spirit of guilty self-criticism
now compels me to confess that I was also after a lifestyle. I wanted to join
the “creative classes”. I wanted to pile back-issues of The New Yorker on my
coffee table and cultivate intimidating bookshelves. I wanted to look down on
management consultants. Such were the youthful snobberies I mistook for
principles.
Afterwards,
clutching our half pints of cider (modern students are as abstemious as all the
surveys say) on the freezing patio of an ancient Oxford pub, we got on to a
subject I had not anticipated: artificial intelligence.
Graphic
design, journalism, advertising – did these careers still offer reliable
futures, my interlocutors wanted to know. AI can write news stories. It can
produce paintings of startling and eerie beauty. Were they all fated to become
functionaries of a machine, reluctant butlers to an imperious algorithm?
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https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/pill-mills-or-medicines-future-the-rise-of-the-telehealth-corporates/
Pill mills or medicine’s future? The rise of the
telehealth corporates
Telehealth
has been one of the big winners from the COVID-19 pandemic
Paul Smith
26 January
2023
It’s
not easy for Laney Robson to get her two children, aged 5 and 11, to a doctor.
Based just outside the Hunter Valley in NSW, she could brave the “diabolical”
wait at the local ED or face being told “it’s weeks and weeks’ wait before we
can take you on” by an unfamiliar GP clinic.
So
Robson started using InstantScripts, an online business that charges $19 per
prescription, for scripts to treat minor ailments, like her children’s eye and
chest infections.
“Everything
else we do in our lives is becoming more and more online; I just don’t see the
difference between banking online and this sort of stuff,” Ms Robson says.
“Certainly for people in rural areas, we’re very fortunate to be able to access
something like this.”
Telehealth
has been one of the big winners in Australian business from the COVID-19
pandemic.
A
new wave of startups offering online access to treatments — from acne creams to
erectile dysfunction medication and weight loss drugs — emerged, raising well over
$100 million collectively from venture capital firms and other investors who
saw a potential gold rush for startups to capture a slice of the $200 billion
this country spends on health each year.
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https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ed623baa-5d82-431c-b910-93df1efb76a6
At a glance: data protection and management of health
data in Australia
Gilbert + Tobin Andrew Hii, John Lee , Kevin Ko and Susan Jones
Australia January 25 2023
Data
protection and management
Definition of ‘health data’
What
constitutes ‘health data’? Is there a definition of ‘anonymised’ health data?
Health
data includes:
- information or an opinion about an
individual’s health or any health services provided, or to be provided, to
the individual;
- any personal information collected
to provide or in providing a ‘health service’ to an individual (including
organ donation); and
- genetic information about an
individual that is in a form that could be predictive about the health of
an individual (or relative of the individual).
The
concept of ‘providing health services’ is very broad and can capture a range of
services that may not be front of mind when thinking about health – for
example, information collected by a gym on an individual in connection with a
gym class, or Medicare billing information held by an insurance provider or
debt collector.
Anonymised
health data is not defined, although the Australian Privacy Principles (APP)
Guidelines state that ‘anonymity’ means that an individual dealing
with an entity cannot be identified. Critically, health data that may be
anonymous in the hands of one entity may not be anonymous in the hands of
another. The ability of an entity to link a data set with other information is
relevant to whether data is truly anonymised.
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At a glance: intellectual property for digital health
in Australia
Gilbert + Tobin
Australia January 25 2023
Intellectual property
Patentability and inventorship
What
are the most noteworthy rules and considerations relating to the patentability
and inventorship of digital health-related inventions?
Patentees
of digital health-related inventions, which often require computer
implementation in one form or another, need to navigate the patentability
requirement in Australia. While abstract ideas and computer-implemented
inventions are not regarded as patentable subject matter in Australia, patents
directed to other aspects of digital health-related inventions such as
hardware, telemetry and diagnostic tools may be patent-eligible.
Recently,
the Full Federal Court of Australia found that an artificial intelligence
system could not be named as an inventor on a patent application (Commissioner
of Patents v Thaler [2022] FCAFC 62). The High Court of Australia
(Australia’s apex court) declined to hear an appeal of this decision (Thaler
v Commissioner of Patents [2022] HCATrans 199).
Patent prosecution
What
is the patent application and registration procedure for digital health
technologies in your jurisdiction?
The
Australian patent system provides the same application process across all
technologies, including digital health. There are no specific provisions for
digital health technologies. IP Australia (incorporating the Australian Patent
Office) is responsible for pre-grant examinations, pre-grant oppositions,
re-examinations and amendments to patents and patent applications. As in other
jurisdictions, the process of filing to grant can take more than 18 months.
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What is secret sauce in chatGPT?
Gilbert + Tobin Peter Waters
Australia January 23 2023
The
media is ablaze with the marvels of the next generation of AI: writing passable
grade university essays, winning art competitions, and composing a song “in the
style of Nick Cave” (although
Nick says the song sucks).
In
a phrase coined by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered
Artificial Intelligence (HAI), these new AIs are classified as foundational
models:
'A foundation model is any model that is trained on broad data (generally using
self-supervision at scale) that can be adapted (e.g., fine-tuned) to a wide
range of downstream tasks'.
Why
are foundational models different to the AI of the past?
Actually,
they are not so different. Foundational models use deep neural networks and
self-supervised learning, which have existed for decades. What is different is
the sheer scale and scope of foundation models – basically the vastness of the
data they learn (and importantly, self-learn) on.
In
a sense, foundational models are an
example of ‘bigger is better’. AI model performance scales with the
amount of computing, and in turn, the amount of computing used in training the
largest AI has been doubling every 3.4 months and seems to be accelerating
(faster than the biblical Moore’s Law). In less than four years, the number of
parameters used in the largest AI models jumped by over 5 times.
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/ai-platform-chatgtp-will-have-a-massive-impact-on-education/news-story/d5cbdf6e880d86a76a0070614726de52
AI platform ChatGTP
will have a massive impact on education
Tim Dodd
9:50PM
January 24, 2023
No sooner is
the Covid problem over than universities have been presented with a different,
but equally difficult challenge. Last month artificial intelligence disrupted
humans for real when OpenAI – in which Microsoft has just announced a $US10bn
investment – released the third version of its ChatGPT platform.
For the first
time we have a free, easily accessed AI bot which has close to human
communication capacities, as well as the ability to mimic typically human stuff
– such as essay writing, coding, joke telling, exam sitting and yarn spinning –
in the blink of an eye. If that weren’t enough it also has access to virtually
all human knowledge.
ChatGPT, and
other similar products, pose several profound challenges and opportunities for
educators. One is that ChatGPT can credibly do most assignments given to
students – whether research tasks, essays or exams.
Another is
that they are a superb source of knowledge. Any student who decides to use an
AI bot to learn rather than cheat, immediately finds they have a free, and in
most cases entirely reliable, tutor always at their elbow, capable of giving a
coherent explanation of almost anything.
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https://www.talkinghealthtech.com/podcast/324-interoperability-feasible-goal-or-holy-grail-spring-summit-2022-feature-episode
Posted
24/01/2023 in Public Episode featuring
Danielle Bancroft, Best Practice Software, Kate Ebrill, CSIRO, Alex Duong, Monash Health, Dr Brent Barker
324 - Interoperability; feasible goal or holy grail?
Spring Summit 2022 Feature Episode
Interoperability is a word that is being used with increasing
frequency. The reality is we have the technology to make it happen. There is no
reason why technology can't support it.
So, why have we failed to
achieve that goal so far?
We know it's important to
the future of patient-centred care. We know it underpins the full framework,
but what does the ideal experience actually look like for patient-centred
clinicians? What are we actually trying to achieve?
In this episode, we look
back at the Interoperability segment from Talking HealthTech’s Spring Summit.
Danielle Bancroft from Best Practice Software chaired
this session with a panel of Kate Ebrill from CSIRO, Alex Duong from Monash
Health and Dr Brent Barker. In this episode, they look at the potential
benefits of interoperability and answer the age-old question; is it a realistic
and achievable goal or just a dream?
Supporting Caregivers
Brent recently found
himself in the midst of a pandemic,
supporting his mother through a complex health journey and is now supporting
his father, who is independently living at home and needing care. While
providing care and support for his parents, Brent has experienced many
complexities over the last few years. However, there are many changes that
could be made to help him and others in similar situations.
Though the technology
exists for optimising interoperability, it still requires someone to take the
time, interpret the information and apply it. Regardless of his clinical
background, one thing that could have helped Brent’s situation is support.
Having someone like a case manager, a coach or an advocate to support the
family and help with coordinating services or ensuring that patient information
is linked to identify what resources are available makes so much
difference.
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https://www.afr.com/technology/ai-is-improving-faster-than-most-humans-realise-20230124-p5cf0e
AI is improving faster than most humans realise
This
professor of economics says after many hours playing around with AI language
tools, people are in for a shock.
Tyler Cowen
Jan 24, 2023
– 10.29am
Artificial
intelligence advances in a manner that’s hard for the human mind to grasp. For
a long time nothing happens, and then all of a sudden something does.
The
current revolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT
resulted from the advent of “transformer neural networks” in about 2017.
What
will the next half-decade bring? Can we rely on our current impressions of
these tools to judge their quality, or will they surprise us with their
development?
As
someone who has spent many hours playing around with these models, I think many
people are in for a shock.
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/if-ai-has-all-the-answers-universities-must-change-the-questions-20230122-p5cek6.html
If AI has all the answers, universities must change the
questions
Dan
Dixon
Academic and writer
January 24, 2023 — 5.00am
As
the beginning of the academic year approaches, there is rising
alarm among universities about the implications of AI. The focus of
this concern is ChatGPT, a program that can, in response to a simple prompt,
immediately originate a reasonably convincing approximation of a university-level
essay.
Universities
are on the defensive, pledging to increase the prevalence of
supervised exams, while augmenting their plagiarism detection systems to
identify students who have recruited an AI assistant. We’re told innovation
(that empty buzzword) will be required, and some
have suggested that students could be expected to incorporate the
use of AI into their work, becoming
for prose what calculators are to maths.
Just
as the internet changed the depth and complexity we expect of students’ writing
and research, the increasing availability and sophistication of AI might
similarly shift the goalposts. Yet the bulk of institutional energy is being
directed towards preserving the system as it exists.
As
an academic who has marked thousands of assessments in disciplines across the
humanities, I can confidently tell you that the system is not worth preserving.
Rather than an obstacle to overcome, the flourishing of AI should be seen as an
opportunity to ask what universities and assessments are for in the first
place.
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.22283643v2.full
Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for
AI-Assisted Medical Education Using Large Language Models
Tiffany H. Kung, Morgan Cheatham, ChatGPT, Arielle Medenilla, Czarina Sillos, Lorie De Leon, Camille Elepaño, Maria Madriaga, Rimel Aggabao, Giezel Diaz-Candido, James Maningo, Victor Tseng
doi:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.19.22283643
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed
[what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be
evaluated and so should not be used to
guide clinical practice.
00003905769
ABSTRACT
We
evaluated the performance of a large language model called ChatGPT on the United
States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), which consists of three exams: Step 1,
Step 2CK, and Step 3. ChatGPT performed at or near the passing threshold for
all three exams without any specialized training or reinforcement.
Additionally, ChatGPT demonstrated a high level of concordance and insight in
its explanations. These results suggest that large language models may have the
potential to assist with medical education, and potentially, clinical
decision-making.
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https://www.afr.com/technology/microsoft-invests-14b-in-chatgpt-maker-openai-20230124-p5cex0
Microsoft invests $14b in ChatGPT maker OpenAI
Dina Bass
Jan 24, 2023
– 3.11am
Microsoft
is making a $US10 billion ($14 billion) investment over several years in
OpenAI, the creator of the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT that has lit up
the internet since its introduction in November.
ChatGPT
amassed more than a million users within days and touched off a fresh debate
over the role of AI in the workplace.
Microsoft,
which
already ploughed $US1 billion into OpenAI in 2019 and invested again in 2021,
is seeking an inside edge on some of the most popular and advanced artificial
intelligence systems as it competes with Alphabet, Amazon and Meta Platforms to
dominate the fast-growing industry.
OpenAI
needs Microsoft’s funding and cloud-computing power to crunch massive volumes
of data and run the increasingly complex models that allow programs like DALL-E
to generate realistic images based on a handful of words, and ChatGPT to create
astonishingly human-like conversational text in response to prompts or queries.
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https://www.afr.com/technology/ai-is-coming-for-white-collar-jobs-gates-warns-20230123-p5cev7
AI is coming for white-collar jobs, Gates warns
Paul Smith Technology
editor
Jan 24, 2023
– 12.00am
Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates has predicted rapid developments in the capability of
artificial intelligence programs, such as high-profile tool ChatGPT, will
dramatically change the way people source information online, and warned
white-collar job losses will inevitably result from its use.
Speaking
to The
Australian Financial Review after an event at the Lowy Institute in
Sydney on Monday, the technology pioneer said he had been experimenting with
generative AI programs a lot over the past year, and saw huge potential benefits
for health and education.
Microsoft
is already an investor in OpenAI, the company behind the GPT-3.5 language
system that ChatGPT is based on, as well as Dall-E, which generates images from
text prompts, and is in discussions to invest as much as $US10 billion ($14.3
billion.)
It
has been suggested that generative AI could
blow open the internet search market that has long been dominated by
Google, amid reports that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had
recently been called back from semi-retirement to hold emergency meetings about
how to incorporate chatbots in its search pages.
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https://www.afr.com/technology/is-chatgpt-a-form-of-magic-or-the-apocalypse-20230117-p5cd4p
Is ChatGPT a form of magic or the apocalypse?
ChatGPT hit
the headlines in November, but it’s based on technology that data scientists
have been working on since the 1950s.
John Davidson Columnist
Jan 24, 2023
– 5.00am
On
the topic of how one goes bankrupt, Ernest Hemingway famously wrote that it
happens two ways: gradually, then suddenly.
The
aphorism has come to be retold in the longer formulation “First it happens
slowly, then it happens all at once”, and it’s come to be applied to other
phenomena, too, like the rate of uptake of technology, or hair loss.
Or,
now, artificial intelligence.
Since
the rise of what’s become known as “generative AI” in 2022 and the appearance of ChatGPT
on November 30 that year, artificial intelligence has transformed
from a steady stream of research and development over a period of half a
century, to a gushing fire hydrant of technological innovation that, depending
on whom you ask, suddenly promises to revolutionise and democratise entire
fields of human endeavour, or threatens to bankrupt them.
Or,
quite probably, both.
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https://www.hospitalhealth.com.au/content/technology/article/how-intelligent-automation-is-tackling-health-care-s-biggest-challenges-1501297909
How intelligent automation is tackling health care's
biggest challenges
By Dan Ternes, Chief Technology Officer APAC,
SS&C Blue Prism
Monday, 23 January, 2023
Every
country’s healthcare system works differently, but the pandemic has exacerbated
the common pressure points across front- and back-office operations, affecting
the quality of patient care.
The
World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest global pulse survey revealed that 92%
of the 129 respondent countries experienced some kind of disruption to services
in the second half of last year. No major health area has been able to avoid
negative impact, the survey found.
Australia
saw a 7% jump in patients presenting to hospitals in the past year, increasing
the wait time by nearly 30%. The pandemic took a toll on health systems around
the world, leading to patient care and treatment being affected, with growing
waitlists and waiting times, and overburdened care workers struggling to fill
the gaps in an already understaffed sector that is facing increasing pressure
to also maintain financial sustainability.
How
does a sector with significant backlogs of waiting patients, resource and
talent shortages, and difficulty attracting and retaining new talent dig itself
out?
The
WHO’s Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P Kluge, said that in order
to catch up on backlogged care we need to, among other things, invest in future
health infrastructure. This sentiment was echoed by UK Prime Minister Rishi
Sunak at the CBI conference last month where he had called for the public
healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS), to embrace automation to
navigate challenges in the healthcare sector.
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https://www.smh.com.au/technology/is-the-big-tech-jobs-bloodbath-coming-for-you-20230122-p5cejr.html
Is the big tech jobs bloodbath coming for you?
Nick Bonyhady
Technology Editor
January 23, 2023 — 5.01am
From
social media tool Linktree – a darling of Australia’s start-up scene – cutting
17 per cent of its staff, to rapid grocery delivery companies Voly
and Send collapsing, there was no shortage of grim stories in the
technology round last year.
This
is a fresh new year but so far, it is looking much like the old one. Perhaps
the biggest difference is there are even more people out of work as the
technology industry’s largest companies, rather than start-ups, swing
the scythe.
This
month Amazon announced it was cutting 18,000 roles, expanding a layoff round
announced last year. Microsoft announced last week that it would make about 5
per cent of the company, or 10,000 people, redundant. Google went for 6 per
cent, putting about 12,000 people out of work.
And
that’s to say nothing of the job cuts at Twitter, which are smaller in number
but – along with resignations driven by its owner Elon Musk’s chaotic
management – account for more than half the company’s workforce.
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https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/1/agent-based-modelling-lessons-for-this-and-future-pandemics/
Agent-based modelling: lessons for this and future
pandemics
Joshua Szanyi
Hassan Andrabi Tony Blakely
Issue 1 / 22 January 2023
Comprehensive
modelling frameworks provide insight into the potential next steps for
policymakers, health professionals, and society in our ongoing response to
COVID-19, write Joshua Szanyi, Hassan Andrabi, and Tony Blakely …
WE
have navigated the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) policymaking for three
years now – no one needs to be told that making decisions in a pandemic is
complex. As our available options for responding to severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreaks increase, so too do the public
health questions requiring clear answers. Which age groups should be targeted
for ongoing regular COVID-19 vaccination? How quickly should we bring back
restrictions if infections in the community are increasing? What should our
mask guidelines look like in Australia moving forward?
Addressing
these questions without knowing what is around the corner is a difficult, and
inherently uncertain, task. This is where modelling frameworks help – they
allow us to quickly weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of a large number
of choices in parallel.
We
recently published the results of a comprehensive agent-based model in The
Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific (here),
which estimates the health and economic consequences of over 100 potential
policy packages implemented in Victoria in the 12 months from October 2022.
These policies packages included combinations of:
- higher or lower stringency of
lockdown restrictions to SARS-CoV-2 morbidity in the community (ie, a more
or less strict approach to responding to infection waves);
- the provision of N95 masks by the
government during large outbreaks to replace existing cloth or surgical
masks;
- health promotion campaigns to
increase overall mask wearing compliance during large outbreaks; and,
- 13 hypothetical vaccination
schedules, targeting two different age groups with two future COVID-19
vaccines.
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https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news/australian-startups-raised-10-million/
Four Australian startups that have raised almost $7 million
this week
Tegan Jones
January 20,
2023
Australian
startup raises still haven’t quite picked back up to December 2022 numbers, but
that doesn’t mean there aren’t some dollars floating around. And we’re excited
to report that we didn’t even have to look that hard for female-founded
businesses receiving funding this week. You truly love to see it.
Bloom: $525,000
First
up we have Bloom, an ethical investment startup from Brisbane that offers a
democratised investment app that only deals in climate-friendly opportunities.
This includes some unlisted green investments, like solar and wind farms, that
haven’t been available to regular investors until now.
The
$525,000 seed round was led by Up
co-founder Dominic Pym and Envato
founders Collis and Cyan Ta’eed.
Vedi: $3 million
Perth
vet tech startup, Verdi, has secured $3 million for its universal medical
record platforms for animals. It’s like My Health Record but
presumably far less buggy and problematic.
The
company launched in 2017 as VetVB but changed its name to Vedi last year. It
was founded by Dr Steve Joslyn, a veterinary radiologist who wanted to create a
solution to manual vet record-keeping and consistent data problems.
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