AI Is Screening Thousands of Existing Drugs to Find Out What Works Against COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to wreak havoc around the world, doctors and medical researchers are desperately looking for medications to combat the illness effectively. And artificial intelligence (AI) development may help point them in the right direction. Deep neural networks could help healthcare providers identify the right antivirals to fight COVID-19. And they’re […]
The Future of Wearables Depends on How We Use Them Now
A decade ago, most of us were celebrating the fact that the mobile service providers finally removed the charge for every single text message sent and received. Since then, mobile technology has evolved extremely rapidly. Today, we have nearly 5 billion mobile phone users globally. If these numbers astound you, consider that the global Internet […]
The Pros and Cons of IoT in Healthcare
Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) is found across many fields, especially in the industrial and manufacturing fields. But it wasn’t always like that. It took a great deal of investment, work, and learning to implement IoT into large fields like logistics and manufacturing. But the effort was certainly worth it; those fields are more […]
Tech Is Not Only Surviving — It’s Thriving in the Coronavirus Crisis
Although the world is freaking out over the coronavirus, self-quarantining, and the effects of the virus on the global economy, there are some businesses that are poised to come out of the dust stronger than ever. San Francisco and Seattle tech giants, like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, are doing particularly well during this […]
Deep Learning AI has Discovered a Promising New Antibiotic
Finding new antibiotics is like a game of hide-and-seek. Even finding penicillin was due to random chance — bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to discover penicillin growing in his bacterial colonies. If Fleming hadn’t gone on vacation for so long, penicillin may not have been discovered for another few decades. Chemists and medicine developers […]
Healthcare Could be the Key to Making Tech Innovative Again
Original article featured in ReadWrite. Apple has gone beyond its original vision in many ways through the years, and one of the most significant is its moves into the healthcare space. CEO Tim Cook recently shared that he believed it will be his company’s “greatest contribution to mankind.” But the fact that it’s moving in this direction […]
Telehealth: An Essential Tool in the Fight Against the Coronavirus
Yesterday in Geneva, the World Health Organization officially declared the coronavirus contagion to be a pandemic. This designation means that the sickness is spreading in numerous countries simultaneously. It’s also a grave acknowledgment that current measures to contain the malady’s spread are not succeeding. As medical organizations mount more efforts to combat the transmission of […]
Tech Companies Could Be Our Doctors in the Future
Healthcare is a necessity for humanity to survive — and thrive. For centuries, we were left to our own devices to figure out a treatment for our illness. This often meant using natural plants and methods to create a concoction. But with the advent of modern medicine, healthcare has become the biggest global business; it’s […]
Can AI Save Modern Medicine? Or Will It Be the Other Way Around?
Medicine and artificial intelligence (AI) are very similar fields in some aspects: they both seek to help and aid humanity, improve day-to-day conditions for people, and continue the evolvement of their respective fields for the sake of their users. So it’s no surprise that when we combine these two fields, the result is something grander […]
How AI Is Impacting the Operating Room
Technology has infiltrated every aspect of the healthcare system. And in some cases, the resulting new medical applications are allowing us to peer deeper into one of the most mysterious organs in the human body. An artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technology published in the Nature Medicine journal is improving the extremely precise and sensitive field of […]