Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
Masimo's MightySat Medical is the first FDA-cleared pulse oximeter available to consumers without a prescription, which could disrupt the market for the notoriously inaccurate at-home devices.
MediView’s technologies utilize AR to provide clinicians with 3D “X-ray vision” guidance during minimally invasive procedures and surgeries, while also offering remote collaboration.
Researchers have demonstrated the use of machine learning to predict suicides in a general population, achieving good accuracy by including data from routine health checkups.
Machine learning can help post-childbirth mothers guard against problems with subsequent pregnancies, potentially saving their lives and those of their future babies.
Trotting out a new digital health assistant this week, Amazon is emphasizing the wearable’s incorporation of AI to guide users toward some complicated goals.
Researchers in Canada are working to develop AI models for diagnosing and treating mental illness. One application in their sights involves automated interpretations of brain scans.
When a virus mutates, the researchers explained, it can be benign or even make the virus less dangerous to humans. In this instance, however, many detected mutations have a significant chance of becoming more infectious strains of COVID-19.
Along with new or improved algorithmic applications for chest imaging, watch for word of an AI-powered breathalyzer and other diagnostic techno-weapons aimed at COVID. What they’ll all have in common is full-throated NIH support.
