by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2018 | General News, Medical
Even if you’re not claustrophobic, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can be discomforting. It’s important that you lie very still and breathe normally for anywhere from 10 to 80 minutes while loud noises explode, sounding like you imagine a space...
by Alfred Poor | November 29, 2018 | General News, Health
Conventional wisdom says that people quickly tire of their fitness bands, and shove them into the back of a drawer somewhere. New research from Valencell paints a very different picture. An online survey provides an update for the study that the company conducted two...
by Bruce Brown | November 28, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The very early typing machine at the top of this article represented a significant advance for the written word. Without pushing the comparison too far, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a natural language processing service developed to transform...
by Alfred Poor | November 28, 2018 | General News, Health
Some say that we are now living in the Information Age, as we transition from industrialized business models to one where digital data processing takes over the controls. Key to this concept is the fact that data has value in itself, as it guides actions to make...
by Bruce Brown | November 27, 2018 | General News, Medical
Crowded hospital emergency departments (EDs) can frustrate waiting patients and overwhelmed medical staff. If you’ve visited an emergency department in the last year or two, you likely experienced crowded conditions and long wait times. Earlier this year, the...
by Bruce Brown | November 26, 2018 | General News, Medical
This past weekend, following the work of nearly a year, a large group of journalists published a report on the safety of medical devices via The Associated Press, a group member. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) comprises more than...
