The UK government is to set up a national artificial intelligence laboratory, accompanied by £250m in funding to help boost the role of AI within the health service. Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said "The power of artificial intelligence to improve medicine, to save lives, to improve the way trea
Facebook is financing university research in order to develop ‘speech decoders’ with an ability to determine what people are trying to say by analyzing their brain signals
In a paper presented at the Machine Learning for Healthcare conference, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated a model that automatically learns features predictive of vocal cord disorders. The features come from a dataset of 100 subjects, each with a week’s worth
Tech giants Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce recently reaffirmed a commitment to interoperability when it comes to US health data. The companies aimed to promote the present standards of data-sharing by developing approved tools that make it easier for healthcare organiz
An artificial nose developed at Tampere University, Finland, has been found to help neurosurgeons single out cancerous tissue in the brain during surgery, ensuring more precise excision of tumors. When an electric knife or diathermy blade is used during a neurosurgery to destroy cancerous tissue, th
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania have developed an advanced form of 3D bioprinting, with the use of Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) technology, to construct collagen scaffolds that can be turned into different human heart components from tissues
Complaints suggest that people of color may be at risk of getting inaccurate readings from their smartwatches or fitness trackers
US patients are being enrolled in the first study to test gene editing inside the body to cure an inherited form of blindness
A recent survey by Baltimore-based healthcare research firm Olive and Sage Growth Partners, found that only 50% of the US hospital leaders interviewed said they were familiar with the concept of AI or Robotic Process Automation (RPA). More than half of them were unable to name at least one AI or RPA