by Bruce Brown | July 24, 2020 | Medical
Once again, artificial intelligence shows its potential for sifting through massive amounts of medical test data to deliver actionable results, this time with COVID-19 screening in hospitals and emergency departments. We’ve written numerous posts about AI...
by Bruce Brown | July 23, 2020 | Health
Last year at this time, no one expected most people in the U.S. would be required, expected, or even asked to wear air filtration masks in public areas. The COVID-19 pandemic happened, however, and health experts are nearly unanimous in their support for masks as one...
by Bruce Brown | July 2, 2020 | Medical
We’ve written about telehealth and telemedicine numerous times. Most examples of telemedicine we cover involve a subset of patients, businesses, or regions. For example, in 2018, we wrote about Penn Medicine’s Brain Tumor Center’s telemedicine second...
by Bruce Brown | June 24, 2020 | Health, Medical
According to a paper published in the Journal of Medical Virology in February 2020, a significant number of COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care may have neurological diseases in addition to acute respiratory failure. The authors of the paper-based their...
by Bruce Brown | June 12, 2020 | Medical
The UK’s NHS Project Breathe began in early 2019. The purpose of the project is to give cystic fibrosis patients greater control over their health and wellness through the use of spirometers and other biometric measurement devices. Patients monitor their weight,...