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The EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) of 2017 (also known as Regulation (EU) 2017/745) has had a huge impact on the regulation of medical devices in Europe, including more stringent manufacturer oversight and increased post-market surveillance. Although medical devices approved prior to Regulation (EU) 2017/745 coming into force had been granted a three-year transitionary period,…
In 2019, Yan et al. published a study exploring the suitability of machine learning to analyze online learning behavior for predicting student performance. The time was ripe for such a study, the authors argued, thanks to a recent explosion of learning-related data from which to derive insights. The data increase was due in part to the popularity…
The revolutionary power of computers first appeared on the portfolio management scene nearly 40 years ago, with the first-ever index fund. Launched in 1975 with just $11 million in assets, it’s now called the Vanguard 500 Index Fund and is worth more than $690 billion today. A few years later, statistical arbitrage – a trading strategy based on quantitative data mining,…
Although the term “evidence-based medicine” (EBM) first appeared in print in the early 1990s, the history of this now-popular approach to clinical practice goes back much further. In the mid-18th century, James Lind, a Scottish naval physician, experimented with citrus-based scurvy treatments on several comparable groups of sick sailors. And there is evidence of what can be loosely called EBM stretching…
Data volumes and velocities in health care and other industries are growing at incredibly fast rates, driven largely by cloud computing and the proliferation of smart connected devices across the world. This information explosion has created opportunities for organizations to improve processes through analytics, but also significant challenges in terms of their capacity to handle all that…
At a TED Talk back in 2010, game designer and author Jane McGonigal argued that video games would help change the world for the better. While she may not have been referring to health and wellness specifically, recent developments in reinforcement learning (RL) for health care have rapidly turned parts of McGonigal’s vision into reality. In many…
Picture this: You’re using an AI model when it recommends a course of action that doesn’t seem to make sense. However, because the model can’t explain itself, you’ve got no insight into the reasoning behind the recommendation. Your only options are to trust it or not – but without any context. It’s a frustrating yet…
Ask most people to define natural language processing (NLP), and they’ll likely shrug their shoulders. What they may not realize, however, is that much of their lives already revolve around this technology. From setting up email filters to asking Siri or Alexa which route to take or the ingredients of their favorite dish, to using search engines…
It’s a difficulty that public relations (PR) teams and organizations in general have grappled with since practically the beginning of time – how to predict when a PR crisis will occur. It is also a challenge to determine the best way to manage that crisis so it causes the least possible damage. Organizations have traditionally reacted to…
Biomedical engineer Chethan Pandarinath develops prosthetics – but not just any prosthetics. That’s because the Emory University and Georgia Tech researcher’s goal is to enable those with paralyzed limbs to use those arms as if they were their own, via signals from their brain. Pandarinath hopes to achieve this by analyzing brain activity recordings of…
