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How The Ottawa Hospital uses AI ambient voice capture to reduce physician burnout by 70%, achieve 97% patient satisfaction
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 12, 2025 Source:How The Ottawa Hospital uses AI ambient voice capture to reduce physician burnout by 70%, achieve 97% patient satisfaction
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AI technologies have the potential to provide benefits to patient’s and healthcare providers alike but more high-quality data is required to improve system dependability and accuracy.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 18, 2025 Source:‘A real-game changer’: Digital twins help doctors predict risk and avoid costly mistakes
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Neuralink now accepting Canadian patients
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 2, 2024 Source:Elon Musk’s Neuralink now accepting Canadian patients
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Fantastic application of virtual reality tech allows Ottawa Hospital surgeons to walk around a tumour and its surrounding anatomical structures. This can help to plan surgical strategies that reduce procedure risks.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 13, 2023 Source:‘We’re inside the patient, looking directly at the tumour’: Gaming experience aids surgery
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AI system developed to assist oncologists by predicting the effectiveness of breast cancer chemotherapy. This is just the beginning of AI forays into medicine.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 8, 2023 Source:AI can predict the effectiveness of breast cancer chemotherapy Reference:Cancer-Net BCa: Breast Cancer Pathologic Complete Response Prediction using Volumetric Deep Radiomic Features from Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging
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Montreal Children’s Hospital looks to future with wireless vital sign technology
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 21, 2022 Source:Montreal Children’s Hospital looks to future with wireless vital sign technology
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AI-enabled imaging of retina’s vascular network can help predict cardiovascular disease and death
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 6, 2022 Source:AI-enabled imaging of retina’s vascular network can predict cardiovascular disease and death Reference:Artificial intelligence-enabled retinal vasculometry for prediction of circulatory mortality, myocardial infarction and stroke
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Blood test for ALS undergoing trials for efficacy. If successful, how will this change the management of an untreatable (presently) terminal disease? It could provide an increased lead time to prepare support services.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 8, 2022 Source:Blood Test Shows Promise for Quick Diagnosis of ALS Reference:Company press release
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Neural-network-AI-based model used by mobile phone app detects COVID-19 using voice analyzing algorithms. More crowd-sourced data required to improve specificity and sensitivity but interesting use of AI network.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 6, 2022 Source:Mobile phone app accurately detects COVID-19 infection in people’s voices with the help of AI