In a paper published recently in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the team reports on an AI model that distinguishes asymptomatic people from healthy individuals through forced-cough recordings, which people voluntarily submitted through web browsers and…
As the United States faces a tsunami of Covid-19 infections, with 2,200 daily deaths projected by mid-January, a national masking mandate is long overdue as part of a federal strategy to prevent further spread of the virus. We also urgently…
Researchers and provider organizations have increasingly embraced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to reduce and track the spread of COVID-19 and to improve their surveillance efforts. While organizations should focus on immediate data-supported tactics, such as improving…
Digital manufacturing can be considered a fully integrated approach to planning, scheduling, quality, cost management, material movement and shop floor control. It allows manufacturers to leverage digital and advanced technologies to better communicate, analyze and use real-time information to meet…
A novel machine learning model developed by researchers at Michigan State University suggests that mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 genome have made the virus more infectious. The model, developed by lead researcher Professor Guowei Wei, analyzed SARS-CoV-2 genotyping from more than…
A smartphone approach could open the way to a very simple diagnostic kit for COVID-19 that could be used on-site, whether in a clinic, a drive-through or pop-up testing facility, or an out-of-the way setting such as a rural location…
In early April of this year, during the height of the pandemic, all states estimated that more than 90% of all of its auto claims would be submitted via its virtual tools. Based on my conversations with business leaders and…
Some of the trends shifting this market are Industry 4.0 in the manufacturing world; smart mobility and smart cities; electric and autonomous vehicles affecting aftermarket players like repair shops, tyre shops, second-hand dealerships, fleets; and also the actual car drivers…
The joint human rights committee in May drafted a bill calling on the government to define the purposes for which contact-tracing app data can be gathered; prohibit its use for other purposes, and require the data system’s security to be…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care technology protects healthcare workers from exposure to COVID-19 cases at the same time it has improved quality as well as cost-effectiveness of providing treatments. Virtual healthcare refers to the use of enabling technology like…
