January, 2019

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How the Rise of FemTech Can Help Transform Women's Health

Lloyd Price

The company’s breakthrough product, the Gynescope, is a compact imaging device that uses machine vision technology to allow gynecologists and GPs to perform cervical screening tests in a way that was not possible before. The device also produces digital images that can be saved, archived, retrieved, shared, followed and compared.

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Face ID, Touch ID now Skin ID - next Apple Watch may identify you by your skin texture

Lloyd Price

Sensors may include an infrared (IR) thermal image sensor to distinguish things like hair from the texture of the actual skin and a microbolometer to measure electromagnetic radiation. Further possibilities are an electric field sensor and an optical image sensor. This multiple combination of sensors would help to ensure accuracy.

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From Yorkshire Lad to Global Design for Health: A Profile of Sean Carney of Philips

Health Populi

You may know of Aalto through the image here, the iconic Savoy vase that’s exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art. He attended art school in Birmingham, and then worked in Europe as a product designer. I asked him who were his early design influencers, and was surprised and delighted to hear the name of Alvar Aalto.

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Sernova Cell Pouch Hopes to Improve Islet Transplant Success

Insulin Nation

Image of Islets within Sernova Cell Pouch interacting with microvessels. The design of the therapeutic device aims to increase the survival and function of embedded therapeutic cells to better regenerate natural body functions, i.e., normal control of glucose levels in diabetes.

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Investors are pouring billions of dollars into Smart Home HealthTech in 2019

Lloyd Price

In the area of diagnostics, Butterfly Health sells a low-cost, handheld, personal ultrasound and smartphone app that lets users upload images to the cloud for analysis by a healthcare professional.

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Doctors are from Venus, Data Scientists from Mars : or Why AI/ML is Moving so Slowly in Healthcare

Lloyd Price

As a result, applications designed, for example, to automatically detect cancer or other diseases in medical images are tuned to minimize these type 2 errors. Radiologists and pathologists complain that false positives slow them down too much as they are forced to examine all the portions of the image flagged by the model.

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How to Keep Your MRI Scanner Operating Up to Date with Preventive Maintenance

KB Dental Consulting

23& Open MRI is getting the biggest thing of the MRI worl ACR image quality standards are higher than before and they are making the older systems difficult to pass the checks. Another interesting thing is that if you get preventive maintenance it may not meet the ACR standards. Many of these systems take the Picker Proview.

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