Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence: With Privacy, Ethics, Bias, Health Equity, Best Practices, and Case Studies

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A. PanesarPrecision Health and Artificial Intelligencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9162-7_1

1. Introduction

Arjun Panesar¹  

(1)

DDM Health, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

 

Mobile technology has spread rapidly across the globe and is accomplishing more than just connecting people. The humble smartphone is responsible for changing the fundamentals of how we live—enabling users with a wealth of features including instant communication, Internet browsing, entertainment, games, productivity and location mapping.

As well as being magnitudes more powerful than the computers sitting onboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover currently exploring Mars, smartphones