AI, AR & VR Archives

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Ada Health Adds Swahili to Expand its Global Reach

Patricia Salber, MD, MBA - 2/21/2019 - 0

Ada Health’s Global Health Initiative advances its mission to make quality, personalized care a reality for everyone by adding Swahili and Romanian.

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How Virtual Reality is Changing Healthcare for the Better

Ben Ramsbottom, B.Sc., Ph.D - 1/24/2019 - 1

Here are three significant ways in which virtual reality has left its mark on our healthcare systems.

How Virtual Reality is Improving Care for Mental Health Disorders

Kayla Matthews - 11/21/2018 - 5

The use of virtual reality in mental health care is growing. It offers new ways to approach both diagnosis and treatment of certain disorders.

Is Virtual Reality a Pain Management Alternative?

Miranda Felde, MHA, CPHRM - 10/28/2018 - 1

Studies demonstrate the potential benefit of virtual reality (VR) for pain management. The hope is that VR will be a viable alternative for opioids for some patients.

The Promise of Failure Analysis in Healthcare

Brian Baker - 10/18/2018 - 0

The makers of Learjet collect data & program what is learned about critical system failures in order to improve flight safety. Healthcare should do the same.

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What Will Radiology Look Like in the Age of AI?

Noah Rue - 5/11/2018 - 0

Instead of competing with AI, many health professionals predict that they will work with it, similar to how the autopilot feature is used in aviation — it did not replace the job of pilots but enhanced it.

Leveraging AI and Blockchain to Transform Healthcare

Gunjan Bhardwaj - 4/9/2018 - 1

Many health professionals are stuck using clunky, out-of-date medical software solutions tempting them to bypass hospital systems & use unsecured social media platforms instead. The convergence of two new technologies, artificial intelligence & blockchain promise to bring medical data management into the modern age.

How A.I. and Cybersecurity are Transforming Healthcare

Andy Heikkila - 1/4/2018 - 0

While technological disruption may have gotten the healthcare industry into this mess, it could also be the very thing that delivers the industry from it.

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Is Robotic Surgery Really a Game Changer?

Guneet Bhatia - 12/28/2017 - 4

Some believe robotic surgery is the future of surgical healthcare, but others think it is a costly way to achieve the same results as other types of surgery.

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These 6 Next-Gen AI Tools are Revolutionizing Healthcare

Sreeram Sreenivasan - 10/29/2017 - 0

Here are 6 AI-based healthcare tools that are effectively playing a suggestion-making role that enhances human efforts. It remains to be seen if such tools will play a decision-making role in the future.

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Is it the Dawning of the Age of AI in Medicine?

Peter Karth, MD, MBA - 6/19/2017 - 1

Is medicine (and the greater world) entering a new dawn of artificial intelligence and technology? If so, will these AI technologies only assist doctors or will they replace physician in some tasks?

How Virtual Reality and 3D are Revolutionizing Medical Imaging

Reid Oakes - 5/4/2017 - 0

Virtual reality and 3D imaging are helping physicians better prepare for surgeries, explain diagnoses to patients, and train for their profession.