This portable device invented by a Taiwanese medical technology company uses a proprietary optical technology to effectively see through the skin on the top of your hand to reveal the veins and arteries beneath it in three dimensions. This allows medical professionals to find exactly the blood vessel they need – regardless of the depth – to carry out potentially life-saving procedures.
Google Cloud is enabling general availability for its Vertex AI platform in addition to new features for its Healthcare Data Engine (HDE), the company announced in a press release this morning. The news highlights the latest effort by the cloud giant to innovate at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare.
Over the next three years, many organizations will use AI agents to write the majority of their software, moving developers into review roles, Gartner predicts. But challenges and questions remain.
When Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida on Oct. 9, St. Petersburg's water main lines were ruptured. Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, which has a large NICU, was one of the affected hospitals in the area. Fortunately, Florida had worked with Genesis Systems to put one of the company's atmospheric water generation machines in a nearby storm shelter before Milton arrived. On Oct. 10 after the storm had passed, Genesis' WaterCube 1000 was brought to the hospital to act as a backup water supply. The WaterCube 1000 creates safe water by “form[ing] a handshake with the water in the air” using materials that absorb water like proprietary liquid and solid sorbents. These materials are then heated to extract the water. The machine can produce nearly 2,000 gallons of water in 24 hours.
In its latest announcement last week, Amazon Pharmacy announced that it plans to open pharmacies in 20 new cities in 2025, aspiring to nearly double the number of communities where customers can leverage same-day medication delivery services. These cities include Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia and many more, meaning that millions of people will be able to enjoy rapid medication access.