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The ‘Uberization’ of 911
Apps like Uber or Lyft can find you easily for a ride to the airport. So why is getting help to get to a hospital in an emergency so much more complicated?
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As Hospitals Walk Tightrope of Patient Data Sharing, One System Offers a New Balance
As more hospitals and medical centers look to share patient data and samples with industry, a new ethical framework for doing it has developed.
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App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic
The University of Michigan’s OncCOVID app draws on global cancer and coronavirus data to create an individualized mortality risk assessment for receiving immediate versus delayed cancer treatment.
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Two New Devices Protect Health Care Workers, Help Patients During COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is spurning innovation in medical technology as evidenced in two new devices designed to protect patients and providers during treatment for COVID-19.
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Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator
3D printing fuels U-M efforts to rapidly increase ventilator capacity while providing each patient on vent support with individually tailored gas pressures and pressure monitoring.
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Repurposed Industrial Respirator Could Free Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients
Researchers have developed a negative pressure helmet for COVID-19 patients, providing more protection for health care workers and reducing strain on other essential medical equipment.
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'It's Like You Have a Hand Again'
Michigan researchers develop an ultra-precise mind controlled prosthetic.
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Big Data Advances Research, But It Shouldn’t Do So at the Cost of Privacy
Health data collected from apps or wearable devices could revolutionize personalized healthcare, but the lack of legal protections related to this technology could lead to personal health information becoming available to unscrupulous third parties.
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World’s Tiniest Pacemaker Coordinates Heartbeats from Top To Bottom
A new, leadless pacemaker the size of a nickel is paving the way for the future of cardiac implantable devices.
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Artificial Intelligence Improves Brain Tumor Diagnosis
Neuropathologists are creating a partnership with AI by teaching it how to help diagnose brain tumors with more speed, accuracy and efficiency.
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U-M Approach Could Improve the Accuracy of Cancer Clinical Trials
An innovative way of assessing clinical trial-related imaging could reduce the kinds of errors that can distort results, study finds.
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Eating and Tweeting: What Social Media Reveals about Neighborhood Attitudes on Food
Researchers are using Twitter to analyze how we talk about food in our communities to gain insights into public health.
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Gamified Childhood: Are Digital Devices Replacing Traditional Playtime?
Screen time can be at odds with the benefits of traditional playtime for both kids, and the parent-child relationship.
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Advancing Early Cancer Detection Methods
A University of Michigan obtains a NIH grant to support an advanced imaging strategy to improve methods for early cancer detection.
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Surgical Innovation Course Fosters New Approach to Bone Healing
Michigan Medicine surgeons have designed a new drug delivery technology which could help with bone regeneration.
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