Prenatal App Reduces In-Person Visits [video]

by Alice Williams | August 6, 2019 | Medical

Hundreds of American mothers die every year during childbirth, and about 50,000 are seriously injured, even though the US spends more on healthcare per person than any other nation. Perhaps as a response to a perceived lack in the traditional healthcare system, many...

AI Infers Personalized Treatment [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 2, 2019 | General News, Medical

Big data, machine learning, and precision medicine come together with GNS Healthcare’s Causal Machine Learning. In the GNS model, big data provides the means, machine learning is the method, and precision medicine is the goal. The first two elements are...

AI Calls Cause of Death from Verbal Autopsies

by Bruce Brown | July 30, 2019 | Medical

Sixty million people die each year, most with no known cause of death (CoD). According to a 2012 report by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, two-thirds of the deaths each year have no recorded CoD. The highest ratios of...

Hybrid Mobile Device Speeds Stroke Treatment

by Bruce Brown | July 29, 2019 | Medical

Every 40 seconds, someone in the US suffers a stroke according to the CDC. Someone in the U.S. dies of a stroke every 4 minutes. A patient’s chance of full recovery from a stroke depends on how quickly treatment begins: the faster the better. Statistically,...

Uber Uses Blockchain App for Patient Rides [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 16, 2019 | Medical

Patients who miss appointments with their primary care physicians may shrug it off as not that big a deal. According to a much-quoted 2017 report by SCI Solutions, however, the estimated aggregate annual cost of those blown appointments adds up to $150 billion. SCI...

Wearable Clip-on Restores Central Vision [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 15, 2019 | Medical

Imagine you had to choose between keeping your peripheral or central vision. If you could retain only one of the two for the rest of your life, what would you choose? People with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) don’t have that choice. As their retina...