by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2020 | Conferences, Health, Medical
[Editor’s note: We are going to try posting announcements about conferences and other events that are of interest to the digital health tech community at large. I welcome your feedback and suggestions. Are these posts helpful? Would you rather have a separate...
by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2020 | Medical
Telemedicine benefits include outreach to patients in remote areas and helping make scarce healthcare resources more accessible. Digital visits also save time and travel expenses for both patients and healthcare professionals. We’ve written about a wide range of...
by Bruce Brown | January 14, 2020 | Medical
Machine learning powers many new diagnostic technologies, but AI doesn’t have a total lock on medical advances. Engineers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) developed a contact lens wearable that can diagnose diabetes and treat diabetic...
by Bruce Brown | January 13, 2020 | Medical
Evidence continues to pile up supporting the promise of artificial intelligence in diagnosing medical issues. We’ve written about numerous studies in which machine learning proved equal to or better than physicians diagnosticians. Researchers at Heidelberg...
by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2019 | General News, Medical
Breast cancer screening for women is absolutely essential, One in eight women in the U.S. will have breast cancer in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. What’s more, the breast cancer incidence rates have increased by 0.3% annually in...
by Bruce Brown | December 27, 2019 | Medical
Early detection and diagnosis can have a huge impact on the treatment outcomes for many diseases and medical conditions. Epilepsy is a catch-all term for a number of conditions with abnormal electrical activity in the brain that can lead to seizures. According to the...
