Although clinical adoption of VR remains slow and minimal, like many technologies out there, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic seems to hasten its use in a way that has never seen before. Some even said that they are beginning to use their VR devices again after leaving them idle for long. VR medical tr
National Health Service (NHS) England introduced a new telephone and online service - NHS 111, some years back allowing individuals to seek medical advice and/or treatment for urgent but non-life-threatening symptoms. The 24/7 hotline and web-based assessments aim to ease the burden shoulder by emer
The outbreak science or “the use of infectious disease modeling to support public health decision making” is not something new, yet it has never been so influential before. For example, Jacco Wallinga, Mathematician and Chief Epidemic Modeler at the Netherland’s National Institute for Public Health
Ejection fraction refers to the measurement, expressed in percentage, of the volume of blood being pumped out of the left ventricle when our heart muscles contract. A healthy, fully-functioning heart will eject more than half of the blood, making an ejection fraction to be over 50%. Typically, an ej
Most experts and health officials believe an effective way of slowing the ongoing covid-19 pandemic is to find and isolate those who have been in touch with the infected. With that, different countries have different methods to enforce quarantine; perform contact tracing, and record where people hav
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is universal and ultimately it’s not that hard,” said Dr. Dennis Paul Wall, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Systems Medicine); Biomedical Data Science, and by courtesy, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University during his presentation at AIMed 19. Under
A general talent gap and shortage are challenging today’s medicine and healthcare. As the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center (AAMC) Workforce Studies found, we may be facing 45,000 few primary care physicians and 46,000 few surgeons and other medical specialists in the next 10 years. O
Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli are two engineers from Brescia, a city within Lombardy, the Northern Italian region hardest hit by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The duo owns a five-year-old engineering firm - Isinnova together. Recently, they came to know the supplier is facing difficulti
The analogy of artificial intelligence (AI) is seasonal; it’s known as the AI summer when it’s at its height and AI winter when it’s at its trough. The past decade was probably the hottest summer that AI had ever experienced as we witnessed a boom in related startups; relentless research and testing