China Is Building The Ultimate Technological Health Paradise. Or Is It?
How could a country keep around 1.4 billion
people healthy when the system struggles with corruption, lack of resources and
an aging population? China, the emerging giant with a strong central leadership
fostering technology and innovation, places its bets on artificial
intelligence, telemedicine, cloud-based hospitals, and WeChat. While that could sound like
an ultimate technological paradise, the question is, what are they going to do
with the vast amount of data or to what interests are they going to leverage
their state of the art A.I. systems? Generally, how will we speak about digital
health in China: a healthcare dy...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers AI chatbot china digital digital health Healthcare Innovation smartphone technology telehealth telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Widely Used Neuroimaging Analyses Allow Almost Any Result To Be Presented As A Successful Replication, Paper Claims
Of 135 surveyed fMRI papers that contained claims of replicating previous findings, over 40 per cent did not consider peak activity levels within brain regions – a flawed approach that allows almost any result to be claimed as a successful replication (from YongWooK Hong et al, 2019)
By Matthew Warren
As the list of failed replications continues to build, psychology’s reproducibility crisis is becoming harder to ignore. Now, in a new paper that seems likely to ruffle a few feathers, researchers suggest that even many apparent successful replications in neuroimaging research could be standing on shaky ground. As the ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Methods Replications Source Type: blogs
Puerto Rico, LNG, and the Jones Act
In 2017 the United States reached a milestone: for the first time since 1957 the country was a net exporter of natural gas. Today ships laden with U.S.-produced liquified natural gas (LNG) travel the globe delivering their cargo everywhere from Japan to Jordan and Spain to South Korea. One place U.S. LNG is not exported to, however, is Puerto Rico.Incredibly, that ’s not despite the fact that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but because of it. As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is subject to the Jones Act, a 1920 law which restricts the transport of cargo between two points in the United States to vessels tha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Machine Learning Powered Wearable Soft Robot for Patients with Limited Hand Mobility
Researchers in South Korea have developed a wearable soft robotic device that assists patients with impaired hand mobility to grasp and release objects. The researchers devised a machine-learning algorithm to predict user intentions, which helps patients to use the device more intuitively.
By receiving input from a camera mounted on the user’s glasses, the machine-learning algorithm can predict what that person is attempting to do, and instruct the soft robotic device to assist appropriately. For instance, if a user is attempting to grasp something, the software can detect this from the camera feed by assessing arm m...
Source: Medgadget - February 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurology Rehab Source Type: blogs
VisualCamp Headset Eye Tracking at CES 2019
Head-worn displays, including ones for virtual reality and augmented reality, are becoming common in medicine. They’re already used to superimpose planning images on the patient’s body during surgery, to teach students how to perform procedures, and to analyze clinical data like never before.
While they’re already amazingly cool, headsets can be made a lot smarter, the software within them more intuitive to use, and currently unimagined products would be possible if eye tracking was also integrated into them. We actually already have eye tracking products out that are used in medicine, including one for h...
Source: Medgadget - January 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Ophthalmology Rehab Source Type: blogs
School Choice Is about Rewarding Good Teachers
One of the most common myths in education is that school choice is somehow bad for public school teachers. In fact, teachers startedstriking against school choice in Los Angeles just last week. However, basic economic theory tells us thatschool choice is actually good for teachers because it introduces competition for their employers. In a competitive education labor market, employers must compete for talent by offering teachers smaller class sizes, more autonomy, and higher salaries.In fact, thefive studies that exist on the subject all find that charter and private school choice leads to higher salaries for teachers in t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 24, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Corey A. DeAngelis Source Type: blogs
The Good, The Bad and The Weird: Health Tech From CES 2019
Smart belt for weight loss, spider-like walking car, terrifying Robo-Sharks, IoT cat toilet, the real version of the monolith from Space Odyssey: the world’s most famous tech circus brings the superlatives of innovation to Las Vegas every year. Here, we sorted out the most exciting, the less useful or the outright dumbest health technology from CES 2019.
The year of the solar cow
What do power banks and cows have in common? The 2019 CES Innovation Award, actually. It’s a brilliant project of a South Korean solar energy company, Yolk, having partnered with a Kenyan educational institution, to keep children at school. W...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine ces CES 2019 digital digital health digital health tech gadgets health technology health trends Innovation smartwatch summit wearables Source Type: blogs
The Good, The Bad and The Weird: Health Tech From CES 2019
Smart belt for weight loss, spider-like walking car, terrifying Robo-Sharks, IoT cat toilet, the real version of the monolith from Space Odyssey: the world’s most famous tech circus brings the superlatives of innovation to Las Vegas every year. Here, we sorted out the most exciting, the less useful or the outright dumbest health technologies from CES 2019.
The year of the solar cow
What do power banks and cows have in common? The 2019 CES Innovation Award, actually. It’s a brilliant project of a South Korean solar energy company, Yolk, having partnered with a Kenyan educational institution, to keep children at school....
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine ces CES 2019 digital digital health digital health tech gadgets health technology health trends Innovation smartwatch summit wearables Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2018
The year 2018 is nearly over, and it is time for us to reveal what we believe were the most notable developments in medical technology. We considered a technology’s clinical importance, the greatness of the leap that it’s making over existing solutions, as well as how we expect it to be adopted by doctors and nurses. Additionally, we place great value on the novelty, the engineering brilliance embedded within, and how a new technology makes possible what recently seemed nearly inconceivable. As such, a technology that may not be the most useful, but if it strikes our imagination and opens up new possibilities i...
Source: Medgadget - December 28, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Medicine Society Surgery Source Type: blogs
Another Failed Defense of the Jones Act
As the Cato Institute continues to press the case forJones Act reform, defenders of this flawed and failed law have repeatedly made clear that they ’ve taken notice. Fresh evidence of this was seen earlier this month with the publicationof an op-ed on the leading maritime website gCaptain.com. Entitled “CATO’s Continued Attempt to Skin the Jones Act,” the piece was an obvious preemptive salvo launched a day prior to Cato’srecent conference on the law ’s shortcomings. A close reading, however, reveals it to be another instance of Jones Act defenders missing the mark.Examining the law ’s history, author Sal Mer...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Why Is the U.S. Economy Successful?
In a recenttalk, my Harvard colleague Martin Feldstein posits ten answers:An entrepreneurial culture. Individuals in the U.S. demonstrate a desire to start businesses and to grow them. There is little opprobrium in the U.S. for failing and starting again.A financial system that supports entrepreneurship. The United States has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors who are willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance those firms as they grow. The U.S. also has a large decentralized banking system with more than 7,000 sm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
Nanoneedle Skin Patch to Inject Drugs Into Cells
Delivering drugs directly into skin cells using microscopic nanoneedles may allow for highly effective treatment of skin conditions without injuring the cells that are treated. Silicon nanoneedles have been developed in the past that can do such a trick, but they’re stiff and can be painful, in addition to quickly losing their effectiveness. This is because the nanoneedle arrays are normally placed on rigid silicon wafers.
“To tackle this problem, we developed a method that enables physical transfer of vertically ordered silicon nanoneedles from their original silicon wafer to a bio-patch,” said Chi Hwan Lee, as...
Source: Medgadget - November 12, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Dermatology Materials Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
