Category DIGITAL HEALTH

PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-04-05

Artificial Intelligence Has Potential to Aid Physician Decisions During Virtual Urgent Care

Cedars-Sinai-Led Study of AI-Enabled Virtual Visits Found That AI Recommendations Were Graded Higher Than Physician Decisions Do physicians or artificial intelligence (AI) offer better treatment recommendations for patients examined through a virtual urgent care setting? A new Cedars-Sinai study shows physicians and AI models have distinct strengths. The late-breaking study presented at the American College

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-24

Body fat accurately predicted from AI-powered smartphone app

Researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses machine learning to accurately determine body composition – which is linked to a higher risk of heart disease, stroke and related conditions – from photographs. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed the smartphone app called 3D BodyShape, which is currently a research prototype and will

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-15

Robotics and spinal stimulation restore movement in paralysis

Scientists at Neurorestore (EPFL/CHUV/UNIL) have developed an approach that combines rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord stimulation to restore movement in people with spinal cord injuries. The technology enhances rehabilitation and enables activities like cycling and walking outdoors. Spinal cord injuries are life-altering, often leaving individuals with severe mobility impairments. While rehabilitation robotics—devices that guide movement

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-06

Feeling is believing: Bionic hand ‘knows’ what it’s touching and grasps like a human

Pioneering prosthetic hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds Key Takeaways Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-02-08

Smartwatches may soon detect congestive heart failure analysing RR intervals

A team of physicists at Tampere University has developed a groundbreaking method for detecting congestive heart failure with greater ease and precision than previously thought possible. This multidisciplinary study, involving both cardiologists and computational physicists, builds on the team’s earlier breakthroughs, for example, in predicting the risk of sudden cardiac death. Researchers at Tampere University

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2024-10-25

Researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust publish an AI model able to predict health risks, including early death, from ECGs:

A new AI model can predict patients’ risk of developing and worsening disease, and even their risk of early death, using an electrocardiogram (ECG). Researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust believe their work, published today in Lancet Digital Health, could be used in the NHS within five years. It would

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2024-07-02

A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally

A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally and navigated obstacles. State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic sensors and

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