The USask Technology in Medicine is a student group focused on the growing importance of technology in medicine.
Our goal is to promote education of technology in medicine to medical students.
09/29/2020
They are hosting a virtual hackathon, meaning that you can attend their hackathon from anywhere in the world. They are focusing on developing technology and strategies to help healthcare staff on the front lines to more effectively fight COVID-19.
09/23/2020
08/13/2020
Fighting Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience, One Viral Video at a Time On the social media frontlines with anti-anti-vaxxer Zubin Damania, aka ZDoggMD.
04/10/2020
Sask. ready to deploy medical robots to help fight against COVID-19 "The system can work from the room next door to actually 1,000 kilometres away — wherever the patient is."
03/20/2020
Do you have a 3D printer?
Copper 3D makes the free N95 mask design to fight COVID-19 pandemic spread - CD3D Copper 3D manufacturer of antibacterial filaments designed the popular N95 protective mask and prepared it perfectly optimized for 3D printing.
01/30/2020
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/48/E1332
Deconstructing the diagnostic reasoning of human versus artificial intelligence KEY POINTS Artificial intelligence (AI) is often presented as the future of medical practice. The concept of AI was developed in the 1950s and has been defined as “the use of a computer to model intelligent behaviour with minimal human intervention.” [1][1] It is an alternative to human
01/09/2020
Make Your Health A Priority in 20/20!
MEDTalks is a free public lecture series featuring healthcare practitioners who will inspire you to becoming healthier & happier! Topics include:
- Yoga for pain management
- Mindfulness and compassion
- The health effects of va**ng
- How to live to be 100
Register today at https://usaskmedtalks.eventbrite.ca
12/03/2019
Amazon debuts automatic speech recognition service, Amazon Transcribe Medical – TechCrunch Amazon is expanding its automatic transcription service for AWS, Amazon Transcribe, to include support for medical speech, the company announced this morning at its AWS re:Invent conference. The new machine learning-powered service, Amazon Transcribe Medical, will allow physicians to quickly dictat....