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A report has highlighted the need for fresh data models - at a time when 65% of tech experts are furloughed. Big Data LDN, which runs the UK’s largest event for data, published the findings of its UK Fourth Industrial Revolution 2020 Report recently. The independent research surveyed 250 of the UK’s most influential data [...]
Artificial intelligence is lauded for its ability to solve problems humans cannot, thanks to novel computing architectures that process large amounts of complex data quickly. As a result, AI methods, such as machine learning, computer vision, and neural networks, are applied to some of the most difficult problems in science and society. One tough problem [...]
AI experts have successfully addressed what they call a “major, long-standing obstacle to increasing AI capabilities” by drawing inspiration from a human brain memory mechanism known as “replay.” They have developed a new method to protect – “surprisingly efficiently” – deep neural networks from “catastrophic forgetting” – upon learning new lessons, the networks forget what [...]
Artificial intelligence is lauded for its ability to solve problems humans cannot, thanks to novel computing architectures that process large amounts of complex data quickly. As a result, AI methods, such as machine learning, computer vision, and neural networks, are applied to some of the most difficult problems in science and society. One tough problem [...]
What if you could touch a loved one during a video call - particularly in today's social distancing era of COVID-19 - or pick up and handle a virtual tool in a video game? Pending user tests and funding to commercialise the new technology, these ideas could become reality in a couple of years after [...]
Researchers in Tokyo have developed a device that can transmit fluoroscopic images used for surgical guidance directly to the surgeon on a standard pair of glasses. Without such a device, the surgeon must receive this guidance by repeatedly looking across the operating room to a video monitor. The authors found that the eyeglass display device [...]
Writing exclusively for Health Tech World, the global chief medical officer and SVP at Philips shares his views on the lasting changes COVID-19 will leave behind for the next generation of healthcare professionals. As the COVID-19 pandemic escalated earlier this year, my first reaction was concern for the people suffering from this terrible disease, and [...]
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has announced a new partnership with ORCHA (Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps) to create a review process for the US to enable healthcare providers, insurers, and employers to give patients access to safe and effective health apps. ORCHA’s automated, intelligent review engine allows healthcare organisations to assess thousands of apps [...]
When newborn babies or children with heart or lung distress are struggling to survive, doctors often turn to a form of life support that uses artificial lungs. This treatment, called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), has been credited with saving countless lives. But in some cases, it can also lead to long-term brain injury. Now, a [...]
LanguageLine Solutions has developed a new interpreting solution to provide language support for virtual health and virtual meeting platforms. London-based LanguageLine has developed the new solution, Remote Face-to-Face Interpreting, to address the challenges of the current Covid-19 restrictions by providing remote face-to-face interpreting, to facilitate the visual appearance of an interpreter within a virtual clinic or [...]
