Category Archives: Biomedical Applications

Today Apple delivered a Health Records API for developers to create an ecosystem of apps that use health record data to better manage health.

Source: Apple opens Health Records API to developers

GoogleDeepMind has built a virtual 3D laboratory called Psychlab that will let machines take tests designed to probe human mental faculties, and they’ve open-sourced it so any AI researcher can put their algorithms through their paces.

Source: Why Google DeepMind Is Putting AI on the Psychologist’s Couch

The eyes have it.

Source: Google’s new AI algorithm predicts heart disease by looking at your eyes

There are 26 different electronic medical records systems used in the city of Boston, each with its own language for representing and sharing data. Critical information is often scattered across multiple facilities, and sometimes it isn’t accessible when it is needed most—a situation that plays out every day around the U.S., costing money and sometimes…

Source: Who Will Build the Health-Care Blockchain?

Psychiatry, the study and prevention of mental disorders, is currently undergoing a quiet revolution. For decades, even centuries, this discipline has been based largely on subjective observation. Large-scale studies have been hampered by the difficulty of objectively assessing human behavior and comparing it with a well-established norm. Just as tricky, there are few well-founded models of…

Source: The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry