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. […]
5 Healthcare Technologies That Are Helping Us Fight COVID-19 — Part 1
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost everyone on Earth, and we’ve been handling it with a multitude of high-tech and low-tech solutions. From masks and social distancing to contact tracing apps and telehealth, these precautions and technologies have helped many of us avoid catching the virus while allowing us to do necessary tasks. Recently, biotechnology […]
How Telehealth Is Helping Those With Chronic Conditions During COVID-19
COVID-19 has changed how medical providers see their patients for wellness check-ups, illness check-ins, and on-demand appointments. More and more people are turning to telehealth to avoid the risk of catching the virus from visiting the doctor’s office. Especially for patients who are managing their chronic conditions, telehealth has been a more convenient and less […]
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 […]
5G Is Fueling the Future of Wearables
When most of us think of “wearables,” our minds go straight to smartwatches like the Apple Watch and Fitbit. They track our fitness, health, and more, and we seem to love the insights they extract from our daily habits. Although many wearables come with mobile connectivity, most of us are tethering our wearables to our […]