The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze one’s chest x-rays has become a promising shortcut to determine if an individual has been infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19. As the method lands itself on various news headlines
Last week, two high profile COVID-19 related observational studies published in renowned journals – The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Lancet were retracted. The NEJM paper released on 1 May claimed that Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers
Dr. Anthony Chang, AIMed Founder; Pediatric Cardiologist and Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) highlighted earlier, “There are more than 20,000 papers on COVID-19 but we are dying of thirst in an ocean of information. We need AI (artificial inte
The earliest data record and processing systems were introduced to the American healthcare industry in the mid 1960s. Their primary purpose was to assist in clinical information management. Around the same time, physician and researcher Dr. Larry Weed brought about the idea of accumulating patients’
As the anti-racism protests continued across the US and people are turning their Instagram posts pitch black today to stand in solidarity with those who are fighting against racial injustice. It’s a strong reminder that no one should take racial harmony for granted and diversity should always be a t
“SpaceX, Dragon, we’re go for launch, let’s light this candle,” said Doug Harley just before liftoff. He and Bob Behnken are the two NASA astronauts that were launched into orbit on the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule system provided by SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturing and space transporta
Dr. Rizwan Malik, Clinical Lead for Radiology at the Royal Bolton Hospital in UK planned to test qXR, an artificial intelligence (AI) driven chest x-ray system developed by Qure.ai, a company based in Mumbai, India, when he noticed some of his patients needed to wait long hours for a specialist to e
A good part of the first-ever virtual AIMed conference - AIMed Cardiology took place last week focused on data. Specifically, critiquing information deriving from electronic health records (EHRs) are not analysis-ready and if there can be efficient ways to process data without creating additional co
Last week, the first-ever virtual AIMed conference - AIMed Cardiology touched on how wearable technology could play an important part in outpatient care. Particularly, if they were to pair with artificial intelligence (AI) to improve on accuracy and predict the onsets of certain medical conditions.