POSTS TAGGED AS computational medicine

Wearable Vest Locates Aberrant Heart Beats

Medtronic CardioInsight Vest
Heart patients with transient arrhythmias present a problem for diagnosis: if they do not have an arrhythmia when [MORE]

A Clinic for the Future

Forward Medical Clinic
“Forward” is the name of a San Francisco startup which has some interesting concepts about the doctor’s office [MORE]

“Deep Mind” Artificial Intelligence Sci-Fi

Google Deep Mind
Two years ago, Google acquired the British artificial intelligence company “Deep Mind Technologies” and hopes to use it [MORE]

Automating Artificial Intelligence

Robot Conversation
“. . . imagine yourself sitting on a couch, conversing with an artificially intelligent psychotherapist who interacts with you [MORE]

“Doc Watson” Building a Practice

IBM Watson Health
Noting that about a third of US health care expenditures (i.e. $1T of $3T) is inadequate, unnecessary, uncoordinated [MORE]

Optical Data Transfer at 1.124 Terabytes Per Second

Comcast cable subscribers supposedly receive internet transmission speeds of between 105 and 150 mbps (i.e. megabites/second). Verizon Fios has the [MORE]

Highly Secure Active RFID Tags

RFID Chip
Hospitals are major consumers of RFID tags for supply chain management, but these electronic tags also serve as real [MORE]

An Automated “Radiologist” Named Avicenna

Avicenna Software
IBM is placing a big bet that computational medicine will be the fulcrum between the digital patient and the [MORE]

IBM’s “Watson” on Duty at Sloane-Kettering

ROBOT DIAGNOSIS
There is no substitute in medicine for the astute physician, assuming he or she is mentally and physically alert.  [MORE]

IBM’s “Watson” on Duty at Sloane-Kettering

Robots Diagnosing
There is no substitute in medicine for the astute physician, assuming he or she is mentally and physically alert.  [MORE]

“Watson’s” Debut in Healthcare: 2012

If you saw IBM’s supercomputer, “Watson,” challenge two of “Jeopardy’s” all time winners, you know that the “machine” made [MORE]