At HLTH’s health care industry conference in Las Vegas, HHS officials said they’re developing a cross-agency strategic plan to regulate artificial intelligence in health care, aiming to balance its benefits and potential risks.
During the World Business Forum this week in New York City, McNeill presented insights into building innovative companies, a method Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls “the algorithm.” This approach, covered in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, emphasizes radically simplifying both goals and processes.
Apple has been awarded the paltry sum of $250 in damages after a court in the US ruled that wearable tech rival Masimo infringed on two of its smartwatch design patents. However, Apple has failed in its grander bid to try and score a means to overturn the ban on its blood oxygen feature in the US.
The app from FaceHeart Vitals was one in a slew of digital health devices on display at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas this week that offered a glimpse of how digital health companies are thinking about health care's biggest problems.
Science Corporation published preliminary data this week from a late stage, multi-center clinical trial of a retina implant that showed promising results. Using this prosthetic, scientists partially restored vision to people whose central visual field has holes or blurry spots. Trial participants could read text and recognize playing cards when using the implant, even though they were legally blind. Ophthalmologist Frank Holz, the trial's scientific coordinator, called the results a "milestone" in treating severe vision loss caused by age-related macular degeneration.