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Repairing an injury to a blood vessel or an organ after traumatic internal injury, especially involving the lung, is typically done by sutures, stapling devices or electrocautery with specialized surgical instruments. Time is of the essence as patients can rapidly lose large amounts of blood, predisposing them to shock, which places organs at risk for viability as time goes on.
According to a mid-year study, $3.5B was invested into 188 digital health companies in the first half of 2017.
Why IBM's cancer projects sounds like Expert Systems Mk.2
The inability to tell whether an infection is caused by a bacteria or virus is a huge problem, driving a lot of antibiotic overuse by physicians. Another, which I see almost every time I work in the hospital, is a patient being put on empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy without any cultures having been obtained. Sometimes there is an urgency in beginning antibiotics, but often a short delay to obtain critically important information would be better.
American pharmaceutical giant buys company which is developing way to use patients' own immune system to kill cancer.
What is telemedicine and its greatest successes? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics, Educating leaders in health informatics since 1997, on Quora:
Millions of people suffer from diastolic heart failure, for which there is no effective long-term treatment. Rambam HCC is the first hospital in the world to treat a patient with a new Israeli-developed device for this condition.
Automation could replace one-third of U.S. jobs within 15 years. Oxford and Yale experts recently predicted that artificial intelligence could outperform humans in a variety of tasks by 2045, ranging from writing novels to performing surgery and driving vehicles. A little human rage would be a natural response to such unsettling news.
The Nature Index of Innovation 2017 points industry to institutions providing ideas behind inventions
