Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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Part 2, Q&A with next HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf: Health IT industry shouldn’t fear AI

Embracing artificial intelligence (AI) technology is “a necessity” for the health IT industry, according to Harold “Hal” Wolf III, the next president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Tech companies are using robotics to stop the spread of Zika

American technology companies are updating the fly swatter by replacing it with robotics that target mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus.

Seventh Annual Spok Survey Finds Additional Opportunities in Hospital Mobile Strategies

Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and the global leader in healthcare communications, today released the first of two reports on the results of the annual mobility strategies in healthcare survey. This research, conducted by Spok since 2011, is designed to assess mobile workflow enablement progress and trends in hospitals across the country.

Biocompatible 3-D tracking system advances robotic surgery

Surgeons may have a new competitor in the recently developed biocompatible near-infrared 3D tracking system used in the first smart tissue autonomous robot (STAR) surgery. The system improves upon current manual and robot-assisted surgeries with advanced 3D visibility and accuracy. 

Soft robotic sleeve 'hugs' heart to pump blood

As a way to help the millions of patients with heart failure unable to receive a new heart, researchers and biomedical engineers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University have developed a soft robotic sleeve to help the heart do its job.

Carestream Health’s Successful R&D Efforts Earn 43 U.S. Patents During 2016; 52 Additional Patents in Other Countries

Company Develops Innovative New Technologies for Medical, Healthcare IT and Dental Imaging Systems

Terumo Chooses Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots to Disinfect Healthcare Facilities & Improve Patient Safety in Japan

Terumo Corporation announced that Terumo is the exclusive distributor of Xenex LightStrike™ Germ-Zapping Robots™ in Japan.

Using brain activity to control robotic limbs

The newest technology from the University of Minnesota helped paralyzed patients or those with neurodegenerative diseases are able to control a robotic arm with their brains.

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