by Jeremy Horwitz | Oct 5, 2020 | Healthcare IT, Medical Device, News
Virtual reality headsets are already advanced enough to make your brain believe you’re moving through an artificial 3D space, but VR hardware makers are still working to replicate the physical sensations of touch and force — not just in hands, but across users’...
by Paul Sawers | Sep 18, 2020 | Funding, Healthcare IT, Medical Device, News
Exo, a medical technology startup developing a portable ultrasound device and accompanying AI-powered cloud platform, has raised $40 million in a round of funding. Ultrasound is used in hospitals to image soft tissue, with sound waves scanning muscles, tendons,...
by Dean Takahashi | Aug 3, 2020 | Healthcare IT, Medical Device
If you’ve ever wondered if the data we’re amassing will be useful, check out the continuous glucose monitor from the medical device company Dexcom. As a tech narcissist, I’ve been interested for years in how technology can deliver a “quantified self,” or data about...
by Heather Landi | Mar 6, 2020 | Medical Device, News
Janssen Pharmaceutica, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is partnering with Apple to study atrial fibrillation and how wearable technologies can help people identify afib to reduce the likelihood of an adverse health outcome. The virtual research study, called...
by Kyle Wiggers | Feb 14, 2020 | Funding, Medical Device, News
Assessing the health of pharmaceutical R&D by unearthing hidden patterns in procurement data is a task made simpler by AI. At least, that’s the pitch given by David Qixiang Chen, Elvis Wianda, Liran Belenzon, and Tom Leung, who cofounded BenchSci in 2015. The...
by Medgadget Editors | Feb 10, 2020 | AI, Healthcare IT, Medical Device, News
Wearable health monitors, ubiquitous sensors, and the ability to collect and store huge amounts of data are creating challenges for researchers hoping to use artificial intelligence to identify diseases. While the gathered data can hold important clinical answers,...
