Beyond the Hype – Bringing AI to Radiology
For radiologists, detecting abnormalities in medical images can be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. It can take hours for radiologists to go through a single scan, and there are a limited number of medical professionals trained
Cellular Personhood in the Age of Biotech
After a year and a half of pipetting, running gels, and peering through microscopes, I finally submitted my undergraduate thesis last month. In it, I was looking at the role that particular proteins played in driving inflammatory bowel disease, a
Data in UK’s National Health Service
In March, at the dawn of the COVID-19’s assault on the US, the Department for Health and Human Services finalized two rules designed to give patients access to their electronic health records (EHR) and improve interoperability [1]. Getting the electronic
The Regulatory Barriers Holding Back Telepsychiatry
Last semester, our staff writer Nikita published a piece on computational psychiatry, which analyzes the upstream and downstream ramifications of novel mental health technologies. In this piece, I want to focus on a mental health innovation that is straightforward from
Assessing the Field of Computational Psychiatry
When I think about the field of computational psychiatry, I imagine a robot sitting opposite a highly emotional teen, cross-legged with a pen and notebook in arm. The robot tries to console the kid with its mechanic voice while scanning
Where Software Meets Bio: A Tale of Caution
In this piece, I will be sharing my thoughts on where software has a role in designing and manufacturing biologic drug candidates. More precisely, I want to argue for why it is really, really hard for today’s computational approaches to