# The Cyberpharmacy Futurist (TCF)

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- [The KEMA Framework for Streaming Media Therapeutics](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/09/kema-framework/): Can You Fight Your Demons with (KPop) Demon Hunters? Media on streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, YouTube) are increasingly being consumed globally — including by students and patients. Yet there is a lack of systematic tools to evaluate streaming media content (SMC) for therapeutic purposes. Music and Narrative therapies are established non-pharmacological approaches, but
- [Demon Hunters and Data Ghosts: Learnings on the Plumbing Era of Digital Health at HIC/NMiDH 2026 (3-4 Aug 2026)](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/08/demon-hunters-and-data-ghosts/): I always leave Health Innovation Community (HIC) Conference a little differently than I arrive. This year's theme struck a chord with me as I saw the 1.5 decades worth of digital health evolution flash before my very eyes – since I got into the domain of digital health (then only known as eHealth, as the
- [How Do You Design a Sustainable Course for a Technology That Keeps Changing?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/07/how-do-you-design-a-sustainable-course-for-a-technology-that-keeps-changing/): Building a Digital Health and AI Curriculum for Nurses Over the last 2 weeks, I had the opportunity and privilege to attend a 5-day course/workshop at the NUS Course Design Institute to learn how to design and build a new upcoming module that I am currently developing for nursing students, to train them in Digital
- [What's the Difference Between Alpha Test, Beta Test & Pilot Study - Is Your “Pilot” Actually a Beta Test in Disguise?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/06/whats-the-difference-between-alpha-test-beta-test-pilot-study-is-your-pilot-actually-a-beta-test-in-disguise/): Last week, one of my project students told me they wanted to run a "pilot study". When I asked for details, their intended participants were over 100 students but they had only just developed their digital education "prototype". First round of testing. And when I asked if the prototype was tested for any bugs before
- [Beyond Simulations: What Healthcare Games Miss – New Book Chapter on Leveling Up With Adaptive AI](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/05/beyond-simulations-what-healthcare-games-miss-new-book-chapter-on-leveling-up-with-adaptive-ai/): Think about this: Healthcare professionals want serious games for education. Students love playing them. So why aren't we seeing more in medical education? The answer is not about technology – but storytelling. Most healthcare educators cannot write compelling game stories. That's understandable – we are trained in evidence-based practice, not narrative design. But what if
- [The Meta and Google Verdict: Reflections on the Social Media Addiction Case](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/03/the-meta-and-google-verdict-reflections-on-the-social-media-addiction-case/): Yesterday, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google liable for the harm caused to Kaley — a 20-year-old who started using YouTube when she was 6-years-old and Instagram when she was 11. She developed depression, anxiety, and body dysmorphia. The jury awarded USD $6 million in damages, finding that both companies’ platform design (note:
- [From Bedside to Botside: Reflections on EAFONS 2026](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/03/from-bedside-to-botside-reflections-on-eafons-2026/): I had the pleasure of attending the 29th East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS26) on 27-28 Feb 2026, and it was a great event! Over 1,800 delegates from 24 countries met at the University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore (NUS), where ideas were exchanged on various topics ranging from (of course) artificial intelligence
- [Are Your Patients Seeing Dr LLM Instead of Dr Google?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/02/are-your-patients-seeing-dr-llm/): Mrs Tan, 58 years old, is recovering from a post-liver surgery. At 2am, she wakes up due to pain and nausea. But instead of calling her coordinator, she opens ChatGPT Health and types: "I have just had a liver surgery a few days ago. I'm taking some painkillers but am still in pain. Can I
- [AMEI Journal Club Virtual Session: "Empathy All Along" – Unmasking the Hidden MAGIC of Patient Stories through AI and the Metaverse](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/11/empathy-all-along-unmasking-the-hidden-magic-of-patient-stories-through-ai-and-the-metaverse/): Hi Everyone, SingHealth Duke-NUS is having their last Academic Medicine Education Institute (AMEI) Journal Club for the year, next Friday (22 November 2024; 1pm-2pm SGT). It is my pleasure to be presenting our MAGIC work in Digital Health Humanities with Ms Phylaine Toh. Inspired by the current Disney+ Series "Agatha All Along", our talk is
- [My Gift of Life: A Gen-AI-Created Song Dedicated to Mum](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/12/my-gift-of-life-a-gen-ai-created-song-dedicated-to-mum/): Several years before COVID-19, I became a liver donor to my mum, who needed a liver transplant due to liver cirrhosis. It was discovered unexpectedly, and my family was shocked to hear about it. Being the only child, I knew it was my duty as her only son, to save her for all the years
- [Is the End of the Metaverse Near Or Is It Getting a Bionic Upgrade?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/12/is-the-end-of-the-metaverse-near-or-is-it-getting-a-bionic-upgrade/): Meta's US$77B pivot from virtual reality to AI-powered wearables shows new ways for digital health to be more immersive than ever... If you grew up in the same era as me, this group of superheroes would be familiar to you… The iconic phrase “It’s Morphin Time" and their wearable devices (Power Morphers in the form
- [Mom, You're My Strength](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2026/01/mom-youre-my-strength/): I spent this new year in the hospital with my mum. It's been many years since I donated my liver to her. It's a blessing that she has lived for so long since the transplant. I remember the whole process it as if it were yesterday. I've decided to start 2026 with another song dedicated
- [Medical AI Scribes: Productivity Tool or Joy-At-Work?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/12/medical-ai-scribes-productivity-tool-or-joy-at-work/): Two recently published landmark RCTs in NEJM AI finally show the evidence on AI scribes as productivity tools and whether it reduces clinician burnout. Since the hype of AI scribes, there has been a mix of both excitement and skepticism in the healthcare world. Various companies have sprung up claiming that ambient AI scribes can
- [Research 101 - What Beginning and Early Career Researchers Should Know](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/11/research-101-courses-for-beginning-and-early-career-researchers/): I saw this post online on my LinkedIn and wanted to save this post for the students whom I supervise. Emmanuel Tsekleves has compiled a list of free courses for beginning researchers and early career researchers. Do have a look at these courses. Credit to Emmanual Tsekleves. Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by John
- [Understanding Cancer Patients' Lived Experience Through OncoNarratus - A Gen-AI Role-Playing Game Story](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/01/onconarratus/): Meet OncoNarratus - Your Personalized Virtual Empathy Coach-Mentor! Current teaching methods for empathic responding and narrative competence often lack depth, engagement and learner feedback. An opportunity exists in clinical education to integrate generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in narrative competence training. OncoNarratus 2.1 - Virtual Empathy Coach-Mentor is an educational serious game chatbot developed as part of
- [Australia’s Social Media Ban: An Unexpected Opportunity in Digital Healthcare?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/12/australias-social-media-ban-an-unexpected-opportunity-in-digital-healthcare/): Can the World's First Social Media Ban Strengthen Healthcare E-Professionalism? Australia’s social media ban for under-16s starts effect today – 10 Dec 2025 – in the nation’s attempt to curb cyberbullying, online predators and harmful content. Ten platforms are currently banned: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, Kick, and Twitch.1 2 Interestingly, while these
- [The Musical Journey of KPop Demon Hunters](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/08/the-musical-journey-of-kpop-demon-hunters/): As part of the masterclass that I conduct on Serious Games Storytelling, I have decided to use the popular Netflix animation film KPop Demon Hunters as an example of the techniques used for my storytelling lesson. This Netflix animation film was premiered globally in June 2025, and garnered over 80 million views in less than a month
- [DeepSeek: A "Vision" for the Age of Agentic AI](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/01/deepseek-a-vision-for-the-age-of-agentic-ai/): It's the first day of the Lunar New Year 2025, and already the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is already shaking up! If you have not already heard in the last few days, a Chinese AI startup company has captured headlines all over the world and has "woken" the tech world into the
- [Living in the World of Immersive Healthcare](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/10/living-in-the-world-of-immersive-healthcare-tech/): Imagine the year 2030… The internet has evolved into what we now call as the Metaverse. In this new digital realm, you navigate through a highly sophisticated virtual world as advanced forms of avatars – known as digital humans. Healthcare professionals access 3D images of patients' scans, tele-collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, use patients’ digital twins
- [AI and Digital Humans - A Lethal Combination in the Future of Healthcare](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/03/ai-and-digital-humans-a-lethal-combination/): As I was developing a guest lecture, I decided to explore how to develop my own digital human. While trying to write my script, I was surprised that at the bottom of the program, there was a "help" icon to enhance my speech (to make my speech more human-like and engaging) through the algorithm of
- [Rethinking Strategies for Integrating EMR Systems](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/10/rethinking-strategies-for-integrating-emr-systems/): In recent months, there have been several system failures with the health IT systems in public health institutions in Singapore. According to local news, the system outages were due to failure in hardware devices in data centers. During a time when hospitals are overwhelmed with extra workloads from the COVID-19 pandemic, these failures put on
- [The Era of the Metaverse... Or Is It?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/08/the-era-of-the-metaverse-or-is-it/): The "Metaverse" had become a new buzzword since the end of 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta, formerly known as Facebook) presented his vision, and renamed the company to Meta. Many have predicted that it will be the future of the Internet, where it will bridge the physical and digital worlds in a way
- [How Can Pharmacists Bridge an AI-enabled World: Reflections from the Inaugural SingHealth-OsloMet Pharmacy Innovation Futures Day](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/11/pifd2025-reflections/): As part of the Norway-Singapore Science Week this year, my team organized and hosted the Inaugural Pharmacy Innovation Futures Day (PIFD) — signifying a landmark initiative for potential collaborations between the SingHealth College of Clinical Pharmacy (CCP) and the Pharmacy Department, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). With 67 symposium participants from institutions across Singapore, Norway, and
- [Bridging Gaps in Cancer Care: Insights from the 9th Nursing Symposium on Cancer Care cum 1st Genomic and Genetic Nursing Forum](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/05/cuhk-nursing-symposium-on-cancer-care-cum-genomic-and-genetic-nursing-forum/): This May, I had the privilege of attending the 9th Nursing Symposium on Cancer Care cum 1st Genomic and Genetic Nursing Forum, held on 22-24 May 2024. The event was a vibrant platform, organized by The Nethersole School of Nursing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), for sharing cutting-edge research and innovations in
- [Euphoria in Motion: A K-Pop BTS-inspired Gen AI Song](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/11/euphoria-in-motion-a-k-pop-inspired-gen-ai-song/): Wow! This is my first time trying out a Generative AI tool to create music. I was trying to unite my passion for digital health technologies, and K-Pop, inspired by my favorite group BTS, and trying to find a pharmacy/medication slant to the song. I was exploring various Gen AI music tools, and came across
- [Meet Optix - The Comfort Shifter](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/01/meet-optix-the-comfort-shifter/): Recently, I have been taking a nutritional supplement called Optifast. Having had experience creating characters through my MAGIC (Metaverse Art Gallery of Image Chronicles) project, I decided to use my own created Gen AI character builder (MediCrafter - The Lived-Experience Architect) to develop my impression of this supplement. Below is the creation of my lived
- [Transforming Health Services Managment Through Innovation And Collaboration At The SHAPE International Symposium 2025](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/07/shape-symposium-2025/): I had the privilege of attending as an invited panel speaker at this year's SHAPE International Symposium, organized by the Society for Health Administration Programs in Education (SHAPE) and held at James Cook University (JCU) Singapore from 30th June to 2nd July 2025, where I met several good friends from La Trobe University and made
- [AI Drift in Healthcare: What Is It and How Can It Be Prevented?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/07/ai-drift-in-healthcare-what-is-it-and-how-can-it-be-prevented/): This morning, I came across an interesting video by HIMSS TV on a phenomenon called artificial intelligence drift (or AI drift). Reminds me of the Terminator movie series... While many of us in healthcare understand the need for good quality data and the concept of "garbage in, garbage out", the concept of AI drift is
- [Mental Health Apps and the "Halo Effect" During COVID-19](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/08/mental-health-apps-and-the-halo-effect-during-covid-19/): The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to many reports of increased stress, anxiety and depression globally. According to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), the global prevalence of anxiety and depression had increased by ~25% during the first year of the pandemic. In addition, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported that
- [InnovPlus Challenge Award 2022: CAPSULE](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/08/innovplus-challenge-award-2022-project-vac/): Development of an Authentic Virtual Aseptic Compounding (VAC) National Training and Assessment Program for Healthcare Professionals I am glad to have recently been awarded the InnovPlus Challenge Award Grant 2002 Run 1 to do a mixed reality project to train on aseptic drug compounding. Through this project, we will develop a set of Entrustable Professional
- [Digital Health Summit 2022 @ Sydney ICC](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/10/digital-health-summit-2022-sydney-icc/): This year, the Digital Health Summit (#DHS2022) was held at the Sydney International Convention Center (ICC) on 17-18 October 2022. The Summit, co-organized by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and eHealth New South Wales (NSW), had a jammed packed variety of interesting talks and programs for its over 1000 delegates from all over
- [AI Health Summit 2022 @ The Fullerton Hotel](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/11/ai-health-summit-2022-the-fullerton-hotel/): I had the luxury to attend the Inaugural Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit held on 11 November 2022 at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. Organized by the SingHealth Duke-NUS (National University of Singapore), this full day event consisted of several main lectures and various interesting fireside sessions focusing on AI issues and considerations in various stakeholder
- [Where Surgery Meets the Metaverse](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/01/where-surgery-meets-the-metaverse/): The “Metaverse” has become a new buzzword after Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta) presented his vision at the end of 2021. Since then, many tech companies and large organizations have jumped on the metaverse bandwagon, as it is expected to bridge the physical and digital worlds in a way like no other by enhancing the immersive
- [Serious Games, Game-based Learning and Gamification - What is the Difference?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/02/serious-games-gbl-gamification/): Throughout my career as a digital health practitioner, I have always advocated that for any digital healthcare technology or digital health innovation, the digital healthcare innovation cycle should always be followed. One should not be focusing on the technology and then finding a healthcare problem to "fit" the technology, but rather, one should be focusing
- [Learnings from the MedInfo23 Conference (8-12 Jul 2023)](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/08/learnings-from-the-medinfo23-conference-8-12-jul-2023/): The MedInfo23 conference was a very inspiring conference, where I got to learn many different practices and innovations from institutions and organizations all over the world. Besides the keynote sessions at the beginning and end of the day, there were also many different parallel sessions that were very interesting and engaging – ranging from topics
- [Medical Humanities Seminar: "I am Mantis" - Transforming Medication Journeys through the Power of Art, AI and the Metaverse](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/04/medical-humanities-seminar-i-am-mantis/): I am honored to have been invited to share my work with my art therapist colleague (Ms Phylaine Toh) on how we managed to combine the ART and SCIENCE of Pharmacy - literally - through the development of an Eduverse (aka educational metaverse) for the training of pharmacy learners. Our Eduverse is called "MAGIC", which
- [Biostatistics 101 - When To Use What Tests](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/03/biostatistics-101-when-to-use-what-tests/): Many of us learn biostatistics in school. We learn lots of equations, and how to use different software, like SPSS, STATA, etc... And some even learn lots of python programming to do complex statistics, but many of us don't have the foundation of what tests to use when... It's overwhelming and daunting just to learn
- [Should You Be "Polite" When Talking to Gen AI?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/06/should-you-be-polite-when-talking-to-gen-ai/): It costs nothing to be polite - or does it? For once, "politeness" can be quantified... In April 2025, Sam Altman (OpenAI's CEO) dropped a bombshell when a curious Twitter (now X) user wondered aloud about the electricity costs of people saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT. The response was not only amusing, but
- [Ethical Considerations for Gen AI-based Art in Healthcare and Education](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2025/02/ethical-considerations-for-gen-ai-based-art-in-healthcare-and-education/): Recently, I had a student email my co-lecturer with a concern about a class that I was conducting. This student refused to use a Gen AI image creation tool that I was trying to use for the class. The concern and rationale was that these AI tools steal from real artists and also diminish patient
- [Serious Games Storytelling Masterclass 2025](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/12/serious-games-storytelling-masterclass-2025/): To all Healthcare Serious Games Enthusiasts, I am excited to conduct our Serious Games Storytelling Masterclass again in Mar 2025! This Masterclass will be a face-to-face session in Singapore, so that we can help guide you more closely in your games story development. There will be lots of interaction, including a hands-on design of your
- [Workshop (7 Mar 2024): Deconstructing Storytelling for Serious Games: How to Engage, Yet Keep It Real?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/01/workshop-7-mar-2024-deconstructing-storytelling-for-serious-games-how-to-engage-yet-keep-it-real/): Join me and my colleague Michael Liem as we deconstruct the famous Squid Game Netflix series to identify what makes a good game story! If you're interested in learning how to develop compelling stories for your serious games, sign up using the QR code or visit the link in the brochure. Don't miss out on this opportunity
- [Harnessing Electricity for Healing: The Power of Thor's Mighty Hammer in Medicine](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/06/harnessing-electricity-for-healing-the-power-of-thors-mighty-hammer-in-medicine/): In the vast multiverse of superheroes, the Marvel superhero Thor is renowned for his command and control over thunder and lightning. Imagine harnessing the power of Thor's mighty hammer not for battle, but in healthcare. Impossible you say? Well, recent advancements by researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Freiburg have
- [Digital Health Humanities - Making Sense of How Digital Technologies Can Impact the Humanistic Elements in Healthcare](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2024/04/digital-health-humanities-making-sense-of-the-humanistic-element-of-healthcare-technologies/): I had an epiphany yesterday when I was trying to read up on how my own work and practice was related to the medical humanities. To most clinicians (and pharmacists), medical humanities seem to be something that is "messy", "fluffy" and "cloudy" - not a solid science. However, in my experience, especially with training the
- [MedInfo23 Workshop – How To Create Good Stories for Serious Games in Healthcare: Deconstructing Storytelling Through Squid Game](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/06/medinfo23-workshop-how-to-create-good-stories-for-serious-games-in-healthcare-deconstructing-storytelling-through-squid-game/): Session 140: Human, Organisational and Social Aspects (8 Jul 2023, Room C4.1) I am honored to be conducting this workshop with my colleague and friend, Dr Michael Liem, at the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University at the upcoming MedInfo23 conference, organized by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH). You can
- [Medical Insights: Healthcare Trends in the Multiverse of Immersive Technologies](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/11/medical-insights-healthcare-trends-in-the-multiverse-of-immersive-technologies/): Recently I was invited to write an article on the potential of immersive technologies in healthcare by Medhealth Outlook. It was a chance for me to re-look into the landscape of healthcare tech. With the recent hype on large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), there have been many predictions on how
- [Immersive Education in the SGXverse Symposium](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/06/immersive-education-in-the-sgxverse-symposium/): This year, I am honored to be sharing and hosting an Immersive Tech Symposium session at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2023, which is going to be held at The Academia, Singapore. In this session, we have several expert panelists who will be sharing on how you can harness the power of the SGXverse –
- [Inaugural Serious Games, Extended Reality & Metaverse Session by AHDDIU](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/02/inaugural-sgxverse-session/): I am honored to be a speaker at the Inaugural Serious Games, Extended Reality (XR) and Metaverse, i.e. SGXverse Session held at The Innovation Centre, SingHealth Tower next month. This session is organized by the Singapore General Hospital Allied Health Division Digitalisation and Innovation Unit (AHDDIU), where I have also been asked to lead the
- [Is Your Siri, Bixby or Alexa Trustworthy Enough to Manage Your Mental Health?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/01/is-your-siri-or-bixby-trustworthy-enough-to-manage-your-mental-health/): With the large number of mental health apps that have surface since the COVID-19 pandemic, I had previously written an article on the quality of mental health apps and what are the considerations when developing and choosing such apps for managing one's mental health and well-being. However, with more people working from home nowadays, many
- [ChatGPT in Healthcare - Is The World's Most Popular AI-Chatbot a Boon or Bane?](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2023/01/chatgpt-in-healthcare-boon-or-bane/): Since the end of last year (Dec 2022), there has been lots of buzz about a new artificial intelligence (AI)-chatbot called ChatGPT, which uses natural language processing (NLP) to generate conversations. Its release has since gone viral, and many people are using this new generative AI to do all sorts of things - like coding
- [Gamifying Fantasy With Reality: Deconstructing Storytelling Through the Squid Game](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/09/gamifying-fantasy-with-reality-deconstructing-storytelling-through-the-squid-game/): Workshop at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Education Conference (17 Sep 2022) I am excited to be teaching in this upcoming workshop with my colleague and friend at the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University. More about our biographies can be accessed here: Dr Kevin Yap Dr Michael Liem The workshop link can be
- [The Wikipedia Conundrum: To Trust Or Not To Trust](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/11/the-wikipedia-conundrum/): The Online Toaster Hoax This morning, while driving to work, I was intrigued to hear a report by the BBC about how a hoax post about the inventor of the electric toaster in Wikipedia managed to fool the public for more than a decade! The British prankster, who managed to fool teachers, officials and even
- [Welcome to My Blog!](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/07/welcome-to-our-blog/): Hello everyone! Glad you stumbled upon my blog. As you know, COVID-19 has impacted healthcare and education in more ways than one. Various healthcare organizations have been negatively impacted with a need to respond to the worldwide pandemic crisis. Now, as we move into the post-pandemic world, many organizations are now moving towards digital transformation
- [Wearables for Monitoring Atrial Fibrillation](https://cyberpharmfuturist.com/2022/07/wearables-for-monitoring-atrial-fibrillation/): Many of us have heard of the newest Apple Watch which has many cool healthcare features, ranging from fitness and workout tracking, heart rate and sleep monitoring, providing electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood oxygen readings and even reminders to wash your hands! One of the hyped up features of the recent models is its ability to

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