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.
Several major charitable organizations are banding together to prevent 6 million deaths in 10 countries by 2030 using Big Data to provide precision medicine.
In another sign of its trek into the healthcare space, Amazon has opened a virtual care clinic for its Seattle-based employees, with in-home or in-office follow-ups.
Aiming to develop and market AI algorithms for diagnosing prostate cancer on MRI scans, IBM Watson Health is working with Guerbet, a France-based maker of contrast agents used in medical imaging.
A meta-analysis of 14 studies has shown AI algorithms correctly diagnose diseases in medical imaging around 87% of the time while ruling out specific diseases with 93% accuracy.
Machine learning can read cardiac MRIs with the same accuracy as a physician, with much higher speed, according to a recent study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging and reported by Cardiovascular Business.
Deep-learning analysis of eye scans has proven superior to conventional analysis of the same images for the task of detecting and tracking vision diseases like glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration.
Researchers in Australia are about to begin testing, in humans, a brain-computer interface created to restore communication in people with severe paralysis.
The number of lung injury cases reported from around the country has risen to 530, according to the CDC’s latest update. The number of reported deaths has been upped to seven, as of September 19.
