by Bruce Brown | April 29, 2020 | Medical
The list of artificial intelligence-powered medical diagnostic applications keeps growing, particularly for cancer-related applications. We already wrote about work on AI-assisted diagnosis for prostate cancer at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands,...
by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Enabling Tech
COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm our healthcare systems. In many cases, healthcare personnel cannot keep up with the influx of patients. Help may be on the way, however. A company has launched a new app that relies on telehealth to screen patients based on their...
by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Health
Sheltering at home appears to be an effective defense against COVID-19. However, the lockdown’s confinement and restricted contact with friends and family on top of the daily pall of virus-related news induce significant stress for many people. The increased...
by Bruce Brown | April 24, 2020 | Health
When cities, states, and countries begin to re-open their respective economies, screening employees and customers for signs of COVID-19 will be critical. Many locations currently use non-contact digital thermometers that are held within a few inches of the forehead of...
by Bruce Brown | April 23, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Harvesting host energy to power biosensors is an efficient way to keep wearables and injectables running, at least in theory. We wrote about recent work at ETRI on a thermoelectric module that generates energy to power sensors from human body heat. In 2019 we covered...
