by Bruce Brown | July 10, 2019 | Medical
Agencies, universities, and private companies increasingly turn to machine learning to speed up and improve the predictive accuracy of healthcare technology testing. A group of more than 30 top hospitals and research institutions in Europe and the U.S. formed the...
by Bruce Brown | July 3, 2019 | Medical
During the past two years, we’ve written about a range of machine learning applications in medicine. Machine learning’ analyzes vast quantities of data rapidly in search of predictive relationships. Machine learning becomes more effective as it receives...
by Alfred Poor | July 1, 2019 | Medical
If you follow technology news at all, it’s impossible to escape the 5G media frenzy. The new wireless standard promises to provide high-speed broadband data access everywhere, though there is plenty of confusion around just what 5G is or is not, and just when it...
by Bruce Brown | June 28, 2019 | Medical
Development teams worldwide work on clinical-grade extended wear biosensors every day. The concept of wearable continuous ECG monitors is especially near and dear to our hearts. We wrote earlier about VivaQaunt’s RX-1 Rhythm Express wearable ECG device that...
by Bruce Brown | June 28, 2019 | Medical
Approximately 15% of U.S. adults have chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to the CDC. Early stage treatment can slow CKD progression through the five stages of severity. For patients whose kidney disease continues to the fifth stage — called end-stage renal...
by Bruce Brown | June 24, 2019 | Medical
When you hear the words, “Lie on your side and count backward from 100,” the hardest part of having a colonoscopy screening test for colorectal cancer (CRC) is over. The CDC recommends a colonoscopy today or everyone between the age of 50 to 75 (starting...