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AI in the real world

Chief medical information officer Dr. Arta Bakshandeh on the impact of AI where it really matters – on patients

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Call for electronic medical records to be more interoperable

A new study has found that key suppliers of electronic medical records need to do more to make their systems interoperable to “improve access to information” for millions of patients. The Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London examined inconsistencies with electronic medica

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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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Artificial nose sniffs out malignant brain tissue

An artificial nose developed at Tampere University, Finland, has been found to help neurosurgeons single out cancerous tissue in the brain during surgery, ensuring more precise excision of tumors. When an electric knife or diathermy blade is used during a neurosurgery to destroy cancerous tissue, th

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3D bioprinting rebuilds heart components

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania have developed an advanced form of 3D bioprinting, with the use of Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) technology, to construct collagen scaffolds that can be turned into different human heart components from tissues

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