Emerging Technologies

At AWE2024 in Long Beach, California, Fundamental VR announced it has incorporated AI into its surgical training platform, and HouseCall VR relayed it has signed an agreement with the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy.

Tx-LLM was fine-tuned from Google's Med-PaLM 2 and created to analyze a variety of chemical or biological entities to assist with the drug-discovery pipeline.

Cole Wiser, executive creative director at the Virtual Wild, and Srini Iyer, chief technology officer for Leidos' health and civil sector, discuss using holograms for immersive training and patient interactions.  

Patients of the medical center's hospital-at-home program in Minnesota and Florida will be able to receive home deliveries via Zipline's drones.

Also, Lunit has completed its acquisition of breast screening AI company Volpara.

Also, Optiscan is working with Mayo Clinic to develop a digital endomicroscopic imaging system for robotic surgery.

A group of bipartisan senators is encouraging legislation to support the deployment of AI in healthcare and implementing guardrails to ensure patient safety.

Med-Gemini-3D can read 3D scans, generate radiology reports and answer questions, while Med-Gemini-Polygenic can predict health outcomes based on genomic data.

Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis International, highlights the VR experience Orbis and FundamentalVR co-created to help students in low- and middle-income countries learn to perform surgery for cataracts.  

Also, Clanwilliam has formally established its ANZ division.