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by Bruce Brown | June 21, 2018 | General News, Medical
More than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure ulcers each year, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Also known as bedsores, these ulcers result from a lack of movement, usually involving immobile patients in bed or...
by Bruce Brown | June 18, 2018 | General News, Medical
Connected mobile devices, wearable sensors, and electronic health records (EHR) play a major part in how the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing healthcare. People responsible for Healthcare IT face the daunting challenge of integrating these fast-moving technologies...
by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
Most people just want to get a good night’s sleep, but that’s not always easy. Snoring can disturb the slumber of both the individual who snores and anyone who shares the same sleeping space. The Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study found that nearly one in four...
by Bruce Brown | June 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
Artificial intelligence (AI) — specifically in the form of machine learning — plays an increasingly important role in medicine and healthcare. Machine learning is a type of AI in which the “learning” is derived from statistical analytics...
by Alfred Poor | June 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
According to the website Breastcancer.org, one in 12 women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. More than 40,000 women will die from the disease in the U.S. in 2018. The cost of treating breast cancer is expect to reach more than $20 billion a...
by Alfred Poor | June 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
According to the Centers for Disease Control, opioid overdoses resulted in more than 64,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2016. This national health crisis was the motivation behind the “Opioid Challenge” launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This...
