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What’s New, Doc? How Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Are Helping Physicians Deliver Better Care To Patients

Maggie Sieger

August 14, 2019

Healthcare isn’t typically the first field that leaps to mind when you hear 3D printing, artificial intelligence or virtual reality. But all three technologies are in fact making inroads into the field. They’re allowing doctors to free up their schedules and dedicate more of their time to patients — and improve the quality of care delivered.

A woman manipulating a towering crane lifts a high-voltage circuit breaker 10 meters above the ground. She turns the crane gently and slides the hefty circuit breaker into the correct spot in an electrical substation as an instructor in the background cheers her on and offers suggestions for perfect placement. Then she takes off a virtual reality headset and the substation immediately transforms back into a tiny office conference room.

The University of California, San Francisco and GE Healthcare are studying how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help doctors and caregivers make faster and smarter clinical decisions. Together, they will be developing deep learning algorithms aimed at delivering information to clinicians faster.[1]

Few places in the world are more secure than a nuclear power plant in France. Anyone who doesn’t work there full time, including maintenance engineers and field technicians, needs to get a security clearance and to complete rigorous safety training before they can step inside.
This arduous process creates a unique challenge: How do you train new maintenance crews when simply getting access is so difficult? One clever answer is virtual reality.

Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore Pluto’s frigid heart or climb to the top of 1 World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan.

Cordless virtual reality head-mounted displays may be the key to bringing VR to the masses, not just for households and especially for enterprise use. But companies will need technological innovation in battery life and other components before this can happen.

Despite major publicity and significant corporate investments in virtual reality platforms, the prevalence of VR systems has a long way to go. Still, Christian Talmage, a VR consultant, explains why he's still all aboard the VR growth train.

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Decades before driverless car researchers struggled to create an effective human-machine interface, GE was wrestling with its own, lower-tech version of how to meld steel and flesh. It was called the Hardiman.

Physicist Richard Jones explains transferring one's mind to a computer could be possible in a few decades, but that doesn't mean we should. Is this something that's best imagined in science fiction?

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