Pharma is engineering drug delivery with nanoparticles. Biotech is growing mini “organoids” to test new kinds of treatments. Precision medicine is mapping multi-omics for hyper-personalized care. All of it’s new, exciting, and transformative… except for the part where it all still starts with someone filling out a paper form. In healthcare and life sciences, paper […]
AI is the biggest thing in tech — maybe the biggest thing in anything, right now. But when most people talk about “AI,” they’re talking about Large Language Models (LLMs). Not to minimize them or undersell their capabilities, but these LLMs (like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek) are really just sophisticated text generators. They use context […]
AI is only as good as the data it’s trained on. Making that data AI-ready isn’t just a technical problem for software engineers. Tech leaders have to make some critical decisions about the data they’re using if they want their AI product or service to be good at doing what they want it to do. […]
Imagine you’re building a new Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) device. Your team proposes the go-to approach — push all the data to the cloud for processing and analysis. Maybe that’s the right choice, but how do you know? For starters, how much data are you sending to the cloud, and are you satisfied with the […]
Are we getting better at data entry? Surprisingly, not really. At least when it comes to healthcare. In a survey involving over 22,000 patients across three healthcare organizations, researchers found that more than 1 in 5 who accessed their electronic health records identified mistakes. 42% of these individuals considered the errors somewhat or very serious. A report […]
Imagine you’re a MedTech company in a rapid growth phase (congratulations), and you’ve been using a lightweight enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform — but since your company is expanding, you’ve decided to migrate to a bigger one. But when you start trying to move your data, your old vendor informs you that while your data […]
A group of anonymous developers concerned that AI is stealing their code is suing Microsoft (and its subsidiaries, OpenAI and GitHub) for a cool $12 billion. Their lawsuit alleges (in part) that Microsoft and Co. are scraping code from open-source repos to train AI without proper attribution. Now, Microsoft is sued a lot, but this particular case […]
In June, VentureBeat nominated Onymos VP of Engineering Bhavani Vangala for its Women in AI Awards. The awards recognize AI entrepreneurs, mentors, and researchers — the kind of women “bringing AI out of the lab and into the real world.” I asked her what she thinks about the state of “AI innovation” today (“How much is hype? […]
In the Spring of 2021, mass vaccinations for COVID-19 were well underway. Healthcare providers across the country were vaccinating thousands of people per day. And Albertsons, the nationwide pharmacy, realized they were generating a mountain of paper vaccine consent forms. These forms contained critical patient data and were needed for several reasons, including tracking, reporting, […]