A Hospital in the Cloud Bringing Health Care Anywhere in the World | Mohamed Aburawi | TED

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2025-01-14 ・ TED


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A Hospital in the Cloud Bringing Health Care Anywhere in the World | Mohamed Aburawi | TED

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This is a picture from the Libyan-Tunisian borders.
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These are patients who couldn't find care within their own country.
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These ambulance cars carried my father,
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my grandma, before she passed away.
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And for me, this is emblematic of the challenge we're currently facing.
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We see a significant number of patients seeking care beyond their borders,
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and they should get care within their community.
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Currently, it's very difficult to do that just by training more doctors
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and building more medical schools or hospitals,
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because we will never be able to reach everyone everywhere.
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But if there was an AI doctor that can be with them
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and have the answers whenever they need them
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and where they need them,
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and having those answers being contextualized
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for that specific patient in that village,
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we would not see such dire consequences
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of years of underinvestment in health.
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I'm Mohamed Aburawi,
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a surgeon,
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and I have the privilege of leading our team at Speetar,
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a digital health platform that connects patients in remote communities
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across the Middle East and Africa,
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to physicians that understand their context, language
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and are able to help them best.
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It's basically a hospital in the cloud.
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This folder is how health records are kept in Libya.
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This file can hold so much in terms of documentation.
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And even then,
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it's very rare that you'll find a patient that will come to you
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with a file that has everything from their past history
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that they've kept perfectly neat together
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for you to just to kind of go through,
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As opposed to when I was working, for example,
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in one of the leading institutions in the US,
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I can just ask for patient's name, date of birth, log in,
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get every single procedure that was performed in the past 15 years.
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Because of the lack of digitization in these areas
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where we have ongoing volatility,
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a patient may be in one village today,
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tomorrow you will have conflict and they're in another one.
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And people don't really leave or migrate
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with their files in their backpacks like, oh, my health records.
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So you'll lose that.
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And you'll lose every single allergy procedure, medical problem,
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medication that they’ve had.
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And you’re constantly building that like, record from scratch.
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So essentially what we do is help patients capture their medical histories
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in a digital format.
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And then we make sure that that record is available
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at their fingertips, in their phones,
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but also available for the doctors.
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And we continue to build on that record
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to make sure that patients get the best care possible
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whenever they need it.
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And that's kind of the capturing side of things,
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the capturing the data.
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And from there, we start to work on cleaning that data up
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and making sure it's consistent.
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And it could be fed into models
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that could later on start to kind of give these predictive analytics.
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But what we see with AI or this data economy in general
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is unfortunately a similar trend
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we've seen in the past with colonial powers,
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where now data is the new oil.
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There is a movement to capture as much data as possible.
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And for this data to be fed into the AI models
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that are currently being developed.
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And it’s being fed the data that exists
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in mostly the Western world where it's readily accessible,
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where you have electronic medical records.
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But when you look at certain villages in Libya
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or in other countries which are suffering now,
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going through conflict
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or have been historically kind of marginalized and underserved,
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there is not that attention to collecting data.
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We are not including the full spectrum of humanity.
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As we continue to build AI,
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we need to involve other countries in that data collection process,
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and not just assume that we can build a technology in the West
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and just parachute in.
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And because it's a medical AI, it will work perfectly there.
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It will not work.
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I hope it's a future where patients do not have to leave their countries
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or wait for months,
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sometimes even years, to get the proper care that they need.
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The writer William Gibson once said,
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“The future is already here --
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it’s just not evenly distributed.”
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AI has the power to really make sure
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that quality of care is evenly distributed
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to everyone, everywhere.
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