Obstacles to Machine Learning in Healthcare

by Bruce Brown | July 25, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In 1989’s film Field of Dreams, the character Shoeless Joe Jackson told Ray Kinsella, “If you build it, he will come.” That sentiment worked in the movie but doesn’t always carry over in real life, particularly in medical and health technology....

Machine Learning Predicts Uncontrolled T2 Diabetes

by Bruce Brown | July 24, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Machine learning and diabetes are popular topics with Health Tech Insider readers. The growing global prevalence of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) drives tech development to diagnose and manage the disease. Machine learning models make headlines as researchers explore myriad...

Alexa Answers Health Questions in the U.K.

by Bruce Brown | July 23, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Digital voice assistants already help with timely information in a variety of healthcare environments. Amazon’s Alexa helps ambulance attendants follow protocols in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Alexa assists GoodRx members looking for the best price for...

ClientBot Accelerates Talk Therapist Training

by Bruce Brown | July 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Mental health treatment plans can involve medication and other physical treatment options, but talk therapy remains a nearly universal component. In the 1960s, MIT AI Laboratory’s Joseph Weizenbaum wrote the ELIZA program to talk with patients as a reflective...

FDA-Cleared Human Milk Nutrition Analyzer [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2019 | Enabling Tech

When we wrote about technology and human breast milk previously, the focus was wearable breast pumps from Willow and Chiaro. We also wrote about JustMilk’s work developing a breastfeeding drug delivery system to use in remote regions where children may not...

Sensor Networks Create Smart Skin [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 17, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In 2015 we reported forecasts that smart clothing applications would rise rapidly by 2020 but the bulk of the applications would be fitness-oriented, not associated with healthcare. In 2018 Juniper Research predicted connected clothing would top 7 million units in...