The study mentioned in this article has been retracted, please read with additional care. For more information, please click here. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic not only posed challenges and uncertainties to our healthcare systems but also ignited many questions. One of which is whether individuals
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has skyrocketed telehealth services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the largest healthcare provider in the region. They experienced a 3700% surge of telemedicine visits from 250 per day in March to close to 9500 per day at the end of April. Why is
Matthew Gould, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NHSx, the digital unit of UK’s National Health Service (NHS) wrote in a blog post on 24 April that an ethics advisory board will be established to oversee the making of a new contact tracing app. The board will be chaired by Professor Sir Jonathan Mont
Last week, two frontline healthcare workers – emergency physician Dr. Lorna Breen and emergency medical technician John Mondello, took their lives. Before the tragedies, both of them were serving in New York, the epicenter of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Trauma, uncertainty and moral injury Medica
Earlier on, AIMed reported some users who are constantly wearing face masks as a precaution practice during COVID-19 pandemic face difficulties unlocking their phones or other devices that rely on Face ID. Baskin, a San Francisco based artist took the opportunity to produce masks that are printed wi
Researchers at the Battelle Memorial Institute, a private and non-profit company of applied science and technology and Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center recently reported in the journal Cell that they had successfully restored the sense of touch of a patient with severe spinal cord injury
As reported by AIMed earlier, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic quickens technology adoption. Many medical institutions are opening up to new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) for the very first time to help them manage the immense number of patients and shoulder the pressure put upon he
Last week, Microsoft announced the launch of a new effort – an Open Data Campaign to promote data sharing and usage. In a blog article written by the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Jennifer Yokoyama, the tech giant plans to roll out the Campaign in three steps. First, a new set of guidelines o
Bluetooth is a wireless technology which uses short-wavelength radio waves to facilitate the building of personal area network (i.e., interconnectivity among electronic devices within one’s workplace) or exchanges of data between mobile devices in close proximity. The first consumer Bluetooth was ma