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Tech Life

Big data and femtech

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tech Life is looking at big data - and how important it is to healthcare. Specifically, how it can help women's health. A femtech company in the United States is using monthly menstrual and hormone data gathered from thousands of women to gain new insights into the symptoms which lead-up to the menopause - the time in their lives when women's periods stop. We speak to the company's co-founder and CEO.

Also on Tech Life this week:

A global survey weighs up the influence of social media and AI on accurate news and information. And, are chatbots changing the way we search for information online ?

Presenter: Zoe Kleinman Producers: Imran Rahman-Jones and Tom Quinn

(Photo: A woman checks a health app on her smartphone. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:37.9

Hello and welcome to TechLife, the program about technology and its impact on your life.

0:43.2

I'm Zoe Kleinman and this week we're looking at how crunching health data on a massive scale

0:48.1

can both help women trying to get pregnant and also help understand the symptoms of menopause.

0:53.9

That's in a moment. Also on

0:55.9

today's edition, we find out about a global survey that's looked into the effects of social

1:00.4

media and AI on the information and news we all hear. There's a lot of consensus that the key

1:06.3

elements of a health information environment are the provision or supply

1:11.3

of accurate information in the public sphere.

1:14.4

And are chatbots affecting the way we search for stuff online? We're starting this week's tech live talking about big data and how important it is to healthcare.

1:42.9

Specifically, how it can help women's health, which in general

1:46.1

has a long history of being under-researched. But using AI to interpret big data could help

1:52.5

reduce the gap in health inequalities. A Femtech company in the United States is using monthly

1:58.4

menstrual and hormone data gathered from thousands of women

2:01.8

to gain new insights into the symptoms which lead up to the menopause, the time in their

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