Will Robots Have Human Skin? by John R. Patrick
Will Robots Have Human Skin? by John R. Patrick Words: 532, Reading time: 2 minutes The traditional treatment for burns or extensive skin injuries has been skin grafts. This will be changing as scientists have made significant advancements in bioengineering which make it possible to grow patches of skin in the laboratory. The engineered grafts […]
Can AI Improve Stethoscopes? by John R. Patrick
Can AI Improve Stethoscopes? Written: March 2023 AI is becoming more and more prevalent in our business and personal lives. It is changing the world we live in at a rapid pace. I have observed over the past 50 years every new technology brings bad actors along with it. They immediately look for ways to […]
Can Healthcare Benefit from the Metaverse?
Can Healthcare Benefit from the Metaverse? Written: November 2022 Sometime in the late 1990s when I was Vice President for Internet Technology at IBM, I was invited to visit the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, outside of Chicago. Argonne is a national science and engineering research lab operated for the United States Department of […]
How Can Smartphones Improve Our Health?
How Can Smartphones Improve Our Health? Written: October 2022 In July 2015, I published a peer-reviewed journal article titled “How mHealth will spur consumer-led healthcare”. The following paragraph is the abstract of the article. If you are interested in the full article, you can find it here. Abstract – 2015 Consumer attitudes about their healthcare […]
Does AI Have a Role in Cardiology?
Researchers used portable ECG devices to collect 30,000 30-second clips from patients with varying forms of arrhythmia. Does AI Have a Role in Cardiology? Written: September 2022 Radiology is the area of healthcare which stands out as a candidate to take advantage of AI. However, it is not the only area of healthcare which will […]