Chatbots are increasingly common and a variety of websites use these automated chat systems to field user questions and provide direction and information. With advances in AI, chatbot interactions are becoming more sophisticated and have the potential to provide useful and meaningful engagement with a target audience. The technology has the advanta (Read more...)
Tag: Informatics
New Artificial Intelligence Software Spots Lung Nodules on CT Scans
Detecting lung nodules on CT scans is central to diagnosing cancer and the earlier that can be accomplished the better the outcome. Currently, only about two thirds of detectable nodules are actually spotted by trained professionals. Researchers at University of Central Florida have been working on an artificial intelligence program that can review (Read more...)
Facebook and NYU Using AI to Speed Up MRIs
Facebook, under criticism for its business practices, seems to be branching off into other industries including medicine. Case in point is a partnership with NYU School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve how fast MRIs can be performed. Currently, a simple scan of a knee can take up [ (Read more...)
Healthcare Blockchain Startup Coral Health Announces Health Records App and Upcoming Token Sale (Interview)
Earlier this year Medgadget spoke with Coral Health about the company’s vision to create a more connected future in healthcare by leveraging blockchain technology. At the time, Coral Health COO Philip Parker commented that, “While EHRs have made record sharing possible, sharing has remained laborious and it wasn’t until the F (Read more...)
Hospital Introducing HoloLens Augmented Reality into the Operating Room
Alder Hey, an important children’s hospital in Liverpool, England, is working on integrating Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology into its operating theaters. The HoloLens is a headset that is able to overlay digital images onto a person’s field of view, essentially mixing virtual reality with the real world. The hospita (Read more...)
Artificial Intelligence Optimizes Chemo and Radiotherapy to Treat Glioblastomas
Patients with glioblastoma, a persistent and difficult to treat brain cancer, often end up suffering through multiple rounds of chemo and radiation therapy. Scientists at MIT have been working on harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to better optimize the therapy dosages, sparing the patients the brunt of the treatments while maintaining (Read more...)
Health4TheWorld Named Tech Startup of The Year: Interview with Founders
Health4TheWorld, a Silicon Valley start-up providing education and technology solutions for resource-poor communities worldwide, has been named the 2018 Stevie Silver Award Winner by the American Business Awards for the category of Services. Created in 2002, the Stevie Awards are meant to “honor and generate public recognition of the ach (Read more...)
Genetics Blockchain Platform Shivom Partners with SingularityNET (Interview)
With an abundance of innovation already taking place in the field of genomics, the addition of blockchain technology opens the door to even more opportunities. Blockchain-based genomics platform Shivom and it’s partners are positioning themselves to step through that door. Last month, Shivom announced a partnership with Singula (Read more...)
Crowdsourced Ticks Help to Create Maps of Lyme, Other Diseases
Perhaps the best way of stopping tick-borne diseases is public awareness campaigns, but these must be well targeted to achieve good results without wearing people out with unnecessary warnings. While ticks are widespread, the diseases they carry don’t travel quite as well, so knowing where tick-borne pathogens are found can be of great advant (Read more...)
Virtual Reality Interactive Molecular Dynamics System to Help Researchers Design New Drugs
Drug discovery is a long and expensive process, and any technologies that can speed up how drugs are created has great potential to improve medicine overall. Scientists at Bristol University in the UK, Interactive Scientific, a spinoff of the university, and Oracle Corporation, have worked together to develop a virtual reality simulator that can be (Read more...)
Opportunity for Innovation or Potential Data Breach Nightmare? Project SPARK Announced in Ontario
Project SPARK, an initiative recently announced by the government of Ontario, Canada, is seeking to make healthcare data more accessible. As part of Canada’s nationwide single payer healthcare system, the government of Ontario has access to a significant number of patient health records, all located within a single database. This is in c (Read more...)
Scientists Identify Individuals from Brain Scans While Doing Tasks
All humans are unique individuals, some of it due to the differences between our brains. Being able to identify the differences in the structure and activity of our brains may have enormous consequences for neurology and neurosurgery. While CT and MRI scans can’t yet provide a level of detail to diagnose many neurological conditions, res (Read more...)
Artificial Intelligence and Radar Technologies to Measure Blood Glucose
Diabetes management is slowly moving away from needles, finger sticks, and insulin pumps that intrude on a person’s life. Now, researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed a novel combination of radar and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help people manage diabetes more effectively and detect changes in glucose level (Read more...)
MedCrypt Documents Noncompliance with FDA Cybersecurity Guidelines and Raises Next Round
Earlier this month at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum, Dr. Christian Dameff, UCSD Emergency Physician and Clinical Informatics Researcher, presented new survey data, commissioned by UCSD and sponsored by MedCrypt, on previously unreported adverse events resulting from medical device cyber security breaches. While the full scope of this research (Read more...)
Data Integrity with Blockchain Technology: Interview with ULedger CEO Josh McIver
ULedger is blockchain technology start-up Medgadget had a chance to meet at the “Healthcare on the Blockchain” event earlier this year (See our coverage of Day 1; Day 2) . The company focuses on helping enterprises achieve data integrity through its blockchain platform. Data integrity is particularly important in lig (Read more...)
Streamlining the EHR: Interview with Mihai Fonoage, VP of Engineering at Modernizing Medicine
Modernizing Medicine, a medtech company based in Florida, has developed the Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), an EHR system which the company claims can significantly streamline clinician workflow. Cloud-based and developed by physicians, the EMA aims to intuitively adapt to each individual doctor’s unique style of practice and remembers th (Read more...)
Solving the Limitations of Prior Authorization via Blockchain: Interview with Coral Health COO Philip Parker
We’ve been hearing a lot about exciting new opportunities to implement blockchain technology to address critical use cases in healthcare. One particular use case that has caught the attention of healthcare organizations seeking to improve workflow bottlenecks is prior authorization. Prior authorization is a process used to determine if a heal (Read more...)
ORHub, An Advanced Surgical Software Provider: Interview with Colt Melby, Chairman & CEO
ORHub is a HIPAA compliant, physician-driven digital software company focused on improving profitability and the cost effectiveness of hospitals through real-time smart data and analytics. ORHub provides a cloud-based software solution that captures information before, during, and after surgery, filling a void in the current surgical information in (Read more...)
A Conversation with Blockchain Thought Leader David Houlding, Microsoft Principal Healthcare Program Manager
Continuing our series of conversations following “Healthcare on the Blockchain” event a couple months ago (Day 1; Day 2) in Washington, DC, Medgadget had an opportunity to speak one-on-one with technology thought leader David Houlding. Both a moderator and panelist at the event, David was, at the time, Director of Healthcare Privac (Read more...)
Apple’s Next Move in Healthcare is Breaking Down Health Record Silos
In an important step forward in the consumerization of healthcare, this week Apple introduced an update to its Health app (iOS 11.3 beta) which allows individuals to access medical records on their iPhone. Based on the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard, the company’s new Health Records API allows patient dat (Read more...)