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Virtual surgery reconstructs patient’s jaw
Surgeons in London have used virtual surgery and 3D technology to reconstruct a patient’s jaw using part of his leg bone
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Microsoft team up with OpenAI
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in a partnership with OpenAI, a company co-founded by Elon Musk, to develop artificial general intelligence and advanced software
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Breached patient records hit record high
In the US, nearly 32 million patient records were breached in the first half of 2019, according to data released by Protenus, an AI-powered healthcare compliance analytics platform that protects patient data for America’s leading health systems. The number was double the total for the whole of 2018.
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Concerns over machine learning expectations
A group of physicians from the Department of Internal Medicine of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, expressed their concerns in The American Journal of Medicine over machine learning (ML) and questioned whether new technologies would render a holistic provision of care. With refere
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Use of artificial intelligence made easier
Wolfram Research, the company that designed technical computing system, Mathematica, has added machine learning tools into its software, so that researchers without formal AI training are able to utilize new technologies to improve their work efficiency. The Wolfram computer language requires users
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National AI lab planned for NHS
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
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Facebook analyzing brain signals
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
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New AI model for vocal cord disorders
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
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Tech giants join forces
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
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