|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cigna Corp. plans to expand a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify gaps in treatment of chronic diseases, such as patients skipping their medications, and deliver personalized recommendations for specific patients.
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Discussions are raised around the black boxes that are deep learning models, particularly in medical applications like mammography.
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Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. However, neither patients nor doctors have been notified.
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New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives, which could be used to increase the chance of survival.
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CRISPR is used in the US for the first time on three patients to alter immune system cells to help them recognize and fight cancer, with minimal side effects at the time of reporting.
|| Health and Medical Applications Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
While health websites can help people identify and understand their medical condition and offer emotional support, it can also lead to unnecessary anxiety and be riddled with "fake news".
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A list of 12 technologies that could revolutionize healthcare, such as drone-delivered medical supplies, big data, a stem cell cure for diabetes, a global bio bank, and shifts in cancer research.
|| Health and Medical Applications Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The University of Washington finds that GEDmatch is vulnerable to security risks that would allow malicious actors to extract individual's genetic markers, or construct a fake profile to impersonate a user's relative.
|| Health and Medical Applications Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study byThe University of Washington study submitted experimental genetic profiles determine whether an adversary could learn through a target’s profile whether or not the target has a mutation that makes them susceptible to a disease, and finds that GEDmatch is vulnerable t
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Through anonymously processed medical data, companies like Future Care Lab creating technology to meet elder users' needs, and the use of virtual reality to help caregivers empathize with their patients, Japan has been leveraging digitization to improve care for their agi