by Bruce Brown | May 15, 2019 | Medical
Telemedicine can bring medical specialty resources to primary care physician offices, improve access to medical care for people who live in remote or under-served areas, and enable post-discharge and rehab patient monitoring. Those are just a few of...
by Bruce Brown | May 14, 2019 | Medical
Machine learning applications in medicine usually entail analysis and prediction. It’s easy to imagine multiple applications for AI in public health, resource allocation, disease trends, and cost containment. From a patient’s perspective, however, machine...
by Bruce Brown | May 13, 2019 | Medical
Adherence to medication prescriptions is a cornerstone of positive patient outcomes. A 2018 study of medication nonadherence at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine found that 40% to 50% of patients with chronic conditions do not follow their...
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by Bruce Brown | May 10, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Someday, medical supply deliveries by autonomous vehicles may become commonplace, but today it’s still a big deal. Various agencies and teams have already demonstrated that drones — the common term for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — can deliver...
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by Bruce Brown | May 9, 2019 | Medical
Every time I visit my primary care physician’s office, they start by taking my weight and blood pressure (both of which are higher than I’d like). I use an Omron upper arm cuff device at home to measure my blood pressure periodically, following the...
