{"id":112456,"date":"2020-05-04T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=437404"},"modified":"2020-05-04T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:01:50","slug":"how-one-microsoft-mom-inspired-health-care-companies-to-embrace-the-life-saving-potential-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/how-one-microsoft-mom-inspired-health-care-companies-to-embrace-the-life-saving-potential-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How one Microsoft mom inspired health care companies to embrace the life-saving potential of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mulholland family at home: Kyle, Conor, Melissa and Emma. (Photo by Scott Eklund\/Red Box Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conor, now 5, is already benefitting from AI in his life. After undergoing 12 surgeries by the age of 2 to deal with the effects caused by PUV and related issues, he was diagnosed with autism at age 3, and has had difficulty speaking. He is working with speech therapists, and is also benefitting from an app called Helpicto<\/a> that uses AI to convert spoken words into a series of images.<\/p>\n

Created by French company Equadex, the app, too, came from the heart \u2013 several of the company\u2019s employees have personal experiences with autism. Equadex created Helpicto using Azure Cognitive Services and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to have a child not be able to speak or communicate with you,\u201d Mulholland says. \u201cHe was 4 when he first said, \u2018Mama.\u2019 When he did, it was amazing to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conor also learned how to say \u201cDada\u201d and \u201cAmma,\u201d or Emma, for his 7-year-old sister, who dotes on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really sweet to see how caring she is and how much she wants him to be successful,\u201d Mulholland says. \u201cShe helps him practice on words. I can see her being in a field of study someday that\u2019s very focused on helping others, whether it\u2019s as a teacher or doctor, or something along those lines. Her life will be forever changed because of having a brother like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mulholland says she is \u201chumbled\u201d by all the support she has had \u2013 from her husband, Kyle, an accountant who stays at home with Conor, to Microsoft for giving her a platform to tell her story, to the companies that want to hear and embrace it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always encourage people, \u2018Don\u2019t pigeonhole yourself, think of ways that you can really harness technology to drive greater good, because sometimes those solutions are right in front of you,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cAnd imagine how great of a world we could live in if we had more stories like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Top photo: Melissa Mulholland with son Conor. (Photo by Scott Eklund\/Red Box Pictures)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mulholland family at home: Kyle, Conor, Melissa and Emma. (Photo by Scott Eklund\/Red Box Pictures) Conor, now 5, is already benefitting from AI in his life. After undergoing 12 surgeries by the age of 2 to deal with the effects caused by PUV and related issues, he was diagnosed with autism at age 3, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[135,50],"class_list":["post-112456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}