December 13, 2023 Apps and diagnosis 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.
February 8, 2023 AI AI system developed to assist oncologists by predicting the effectiveness of breast cancer chemotherapy. This is just the beginning of AI forays into medicine.
October 21, 2022 Apps and diagnosis Montreal Children’s Hospital looks to future with wireless vital sign technology
October 6, 2022 Apps and diagnosis AI-enabled imaging of retina’s vascular network can help predict cardiovascular disease and death
September 8, 2022 Apps and diagnosis 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.
September 6, 2022 Apps and diagnosis 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.
June 3, 2022 Apps and diagnosis The week: Hep A in strawberries, new rapid tests for Syphilis, Virtual Surgery, and another useless coffee study.
April 8, 2022 Apps and diagnosis Study tries to elucidate if instant-gratification apps like TikTok have a negative impact on a child’s attention-span development.
March 18, 2022 Apps and diagnosis Activity trackers are great for motivation, curiosity, and fun but specificity and sensitivity are suspect with respect to accuracy as health status screening devices.
January 18, 2021 Apps and diagnosis Study reports that Apple watches require further evaluation to determine their ability to predict COVID-19 infection due to small study size, self-reported data, and a small number of infections within the group.