by Bruce Brown | June 20, 2018 | General News, Health
Healthcare employs artificial intelligence in growing number of applications. The machine learning is form of AI that is “taught” to recognize, categorize, diagnose, engage with patients, or recommend treatment. It shows up in many branches of medicine....
by Alfred Poor | April 25, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Innovation doesn’t just happen. Hundreds — even thousands — of people have great ideas every year, but these concepts need to be nurtured and tested, refined and developed, before they can be turned into viable products and services. One of the ways...
by Alfred Poor | February 23, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
The Quantified Self: it’s a major goal of the wearable Health Tech industry. If we knew more about the bodies of more individuals and their health outcomes, we could detect disease sooner, discover which treatments are truly most effective, lower healthcare...
by Alfred Poor | November 10, 2015 | General News, Medical
Between 6 and 12 million children suffer from head lice infestations every year in the U.S. alone. They spread through direct contact (lice and their eggs die within a day or two if they fall on the ground), so it’s common for them to affect children in...
by Alfred Poor | October 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Surgery is not an exact science. Doctors can study anatomy all they want, but as a practical matter, every patient is a little different. And when you’re trying to remove a cancer tumor, there’s no textbook that can show you precisely what you’re...