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...
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by Bruce Brown | November 9, 2018 | General News, Health
Many seniors live in dread of falls. If you fall and break your hip, as my Mother did as we were leaving a restaurant in early February a few years back, you might not get home for months. My Mom didn’t go home until the end of May. As we wrote in June this...
by Bruce Brown | November 8, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Artificial intelligence is coming into its own in medical applications at an increasingly rapid pace. We’ve seen reports of impressive results from deep-learning machine language diagnostic studies from research groups worldwide. Most recently we wrote about a...
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by Alfred Poor | June 13, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
0 Imagine that a doctor knew everything about how your body worked: what makes it sick, what makes it better, what keeps it healthy. Diagnosing and treating your illnesses would be far more effective because treatments would be designed precisely for you. Now imagine...
by Alfred Poor | May 2, 2018 | General News, Health
Fitness bands and smart watches can do much more than just measure steps. The motion detecting sensors in these devices generate an enormous amount of data, and if analyzed correctly, this haystack of information can yield all sorts of valuable needles of actionable...
