2022 mHealth Statistics & Trends
Like all things, technology is evolving every industry. And, although healthcare may have held a long-time bad reputation to be slower to adapt to the digital revolution. Fortunately, for patients, clinicians, and healthcare organizations, the ushering in of mHealth and subcategories of remote healthcare has proven that old reputation wrong. We here at Dogtown Media, […]
FinTech and the Future of Crypto
Perhaps it was a natural expansion of the cryptocurrency boom. Popular digital cryptocurrency options like Bitcoin or Dogecoin are an increasingly accepted form of payment for real-world items. This additional form of spending power moves cryptocurrency beyond a part of an investment portfolio. People with cryptocurrency investments have a digital wallet that holds electronic coins. […]
2022 Predictions for Telehealth
It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of holding a video conference to discuss your test results with your doctor was a foreign concept. If you had a medical issue, you called to schedule an appointment and visit your doctor in person. If you had questions that potentially required another visit to the doctor’s […]
How IoT is Transforming Work From Home
In late 2019 early 2020 COVID-19 upended our world. From New York to San Francisco, millions of businesses around the country closed their doors and required employees to work remotely to curb the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus. Fortunately, to the benefit of individuals and businesses around the world new technologies stepped in the […]
How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Make Babies
In the past year, we’ve seen healthcare and medicine blossom into more technologically-informed fields. Now, a woman-founded Israeli startup has created an artificial intelligence (AI) application that can be used to increase the chances of successful in-vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF was first used to conceive a baby in 1978 in the U.K., and it’s become […]
Can AI Predict Mental Illness?
Artificial intelligence (AI) may one day be able to detect mental illness by reading just a few of your private messages or public posts. In early December, a group of researchers used Facebook data to predict psychiatric illnesses. The data included personal messages sent up to 18 months before an official diagnosis in 223 volunteers. […]
Does Facial Recognition Mean the End of Anonymous Protest?
Ever since the Minneapolis protests began a few weeks ago, the rest of the country and the entire world have joined in to support the #BlackLivesMatter movement and protest the police brutality against George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other victims of color. But as we know with the Hong Kong protests, police […]
COVID-19 Is Changing Our Behavior – and Messing Up Machine Learning Models
When the U.S. began locking down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Amazon, grocery stores, and wholesale stores like Costco saw an enormous uptick in consumers wanting to buy a few select items. On Amazon, during the week of April 12th to 18th, the top ten search queries were face masks and N95 masks, […]
How AI Is Helping Humanity Tackle the Coronavirus Crisis
Like any tool, technology can be used for both good and bad. And sometimes, that bad is inadvertent; tech in the form of airplanes helped expedite the spread of the coronavirus around the world. But fortunately, technology will also aid in stopping this pandemic crisis. A few weeks ago, we wrote about how the San […]
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 […]