by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
The escalating potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to wring out new diagnostic tools and uncover heretofore undiscovered relationships and causal factors from big data is exciting, heady stuff. Precisely because the oceans of data from galaxies of sensors can...
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by Bruce Brown | September 8, 2017 | General News, Medical
Diabetes patients risk developing foot ulcers that can lead to amputation, which is a dire concern. According to a 2015 study, 6% of the 22.3 million American with diabetes develop foot ulcers each year. Overall, one in four can expect to suffer foot ulcers in their...
by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2017 | General News, Medical
Medical personnel use pain level information to determine the type and amount of pain medication to administer or prescribe. Unfortunately, pain level data depends on both objective and subjective factors that can interfere with determining the...
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by Alfred Poor | August 24, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Modern medicine can provide effective treatment for a huge number of diseases and conditions. The problem is that these treatments cannot be applied until the problem has been successfully diagnosed. And in many cases, diagnosis relies on the analysis of blood, urine,...
by Bruce Brown | April 5, 2016 | General News, Health
Suddenly, the race appears to be on to help blind and visually impaired people enjoy if not actually see images transmitted via social media. We recently wrote about Twitter’s new 420 character image description field. Now Facebook is in the game with another...
