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Is the Blockchain Technology capable of changing medicine?

Recently, Donald Kersey, West Virginia’s election director and deputy legal counsel in the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office, has planned to roll out mobile blockchain voting for the upcoming 2020 election. The application is designed by a startup called Voatz. Its initial rationale is

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From 5G to Healthcare

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless increases speed and response rate of wireless networks, ensuring data to be transmitted as quickly as 5000 to 100,000 megabits per second. This facilitates mobile communications and changes the way smart devices are connected to the internet. Bringing the Internet

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To open the AI Blackbox

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Blackbox: Colloquially, we feed a machine with sufficient data to churn out algorithms that assist us. AI succeed in spotting patterns that human being fails to notice or takes a long time to derive. However, we have no idea what goes on in between. At the moment, AI

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The antonym of a research influencer

Apart from reproducibility, p-value, and diversity, there is one more thing which troubles the research community. That is impact factor, a measure of the number of citations the articles in a particular journal had received for a period of two years. Journals with higher impact factors are given hi

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Addressing false beliefs in the era of technology and AI

Going back a little to what happened at AIMed North America 2018, we invited patients on stage to share their thoughts about artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. One of them expressed that most of his perceptions about AI were formed from movies and popular media.  Indeed, in this era of i

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The impact of AI on medical education

Nature has begun its six-part Working Scientist podcast series at the start of the month. On the very first episode, the discussion revolves around artificial intelligence (AI) and education. Especially, the possible transformations brought about by AI and if our higher education is ready for i

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The misunderstanding we have about Chinese AI

A year ago, Jeffrey Ding, a DPhil researcher from the University of Oxford started a newsletter “ChinAI”. It explores various issues concerning artificial intelligence (AI) development in China. Initially, his effort was to translate and share with his colleagues, information, and thoughts mentioned

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The AI infrastructure challenges

In the latest AIMed breakfast briefing: experience the future of AI (artificial intelligence) in radiology, took place in Chicago on 9 April, Dr. Paul J. Chang, professor and vice-chairman of Radiology Informatics of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, gave an informative presentation

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