As president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, I lead a portfolio of new digital platform businesses focused on transforming health by leveraging artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and an ecosystem of partners for Mayo Clinic. This is made possible by an extraordinary team of people at Mayo and collaborators worldwide. This blog will document their story.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Cool Technology of the Week
As readers of my blog know, my wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in December 2011 and is now in full remission.
She picked up the presence of the tumor (a very fast growing aggressive type) by self examination.
Recently, I heard about an electronic tool called SureTouch which records breast examination via an array of pressure transducers, producing a digital signal as the sensor is pressed and moved over the tissue. The data is then presented in a useful visualization.
The result is objective, repeatable, and painless.
Although this does not replace standard mammography screening exams, it is a very interesting electronic approach to performing and documenting the clinical breast exam.
Objective digital data gathered as part of the physical exam. That's cool!
The demo I saw earlier this year in San Diego at the WLSA event was really amazing. I'll be including this in my year-end post on cool tech I saw for 2012.
ReplyDeleteSureTocuh sounds pretty interesting.
ReplyDeleteAnother gadget that looks promising. A post from Gizmodo.
ReplyDeletehttp://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/B3yWOeRTvRk/the-best-breast-cancer-scanner-might-be-a-souped+up-sports-bra