Dr. Adam Little tracks areas where technology and animal health intersect. This issue highlights some artificial intelligence, biotech news, profiles recent investments in pet care and shares his take on the KC Corridor Animal Health Investment Forum. Source: Exponential Vet, September 12, 2016. Here are the stories Little shares: Technology As lab-grown meat and … [Read more...]
Dr. Little’s students write for Exponential Vet
Summer participants in the Veterinary Student Innovation Program write about what might be coming. The veterinary students have been working alongside early stage animal health companies to help bridge the gap between technology and the veterinary practice. See their contributions on the following topics: Turning suture material into biological sensors Starving cancer … [Read more...]
Dr. Little on Dr. Google and the impact of technology on healthcare
Adam Little, DVM, tracks technology developments and their potential in animal health. This issue covers: 3D pill printing for personalized doses Google will help your self-diagnosis with new symptom search Genes might be to blame for retrievers’ obesity How telemedicine is transforming health care Domgy, an AI pet robot from a Beijing startup Tale of two … [Read more...]
Vet students help Dr. Little with innovation program
Students in the Exponential Vet summer Veterinary Student Innovation Program provide insight on: origami swallowable pills a synthetic dog model that mimics the canine body for use in teaching instead of live animals using drones to track stray dogs using artificial intelligence for X-ray diagnostics an app that compares photos and videos that may help with … [Read more...]
Technology with Dr. Adam Little
Dr. Little reviews how biotech advances may shift demand for food animal veterinary services and the role that sensor technology plays in conservation activities. He also comments on the Mars Petcare acquisition of Whistle’s ‘Fitbit for dogs’ and human medicine developments that show promise for veterinary care. Source: Exponential Vet, Issue #12, April 12, 2016. … [Read more...]
The importance of trust
Adam Little, DVM reviews technology and explores the importance of trust in this set of posts. Source: Exponential Vet, March 29, 2016. Veterinarians have been labelled as resistant to change, traditionalists, or worse when it comes to adopting new technologies. However, from my experience, I think that’s terminology thrown around to excuse poor product development and … [Read more...]
Academic institutions called to lead change in veterinary technology
Dr. Little explores: additive manufacturing applications in healthcare, the disconnect between data and our healthcare system, a big milestone in artificial intelligence and a new series of blog posts on what DVMs can do to build the future he has presented in recent posts. Source: Exponential Vet, March 15, 2016. In some circles, academia is seen as the anti-thesis of … [Read more...]
Dr. Little looks at robots, genetics and Uber
Adam Little, DVM, tracks technology developments and their potential in animal health. In this issue, he looks at technology and the pet industry, genetics and provides some thoughts on Uber. Source: Exponential Vet, Issue 9, March 1, 2016. This week, we have a great overview by The Atlantic on the Future of Pets, a look at how robotics are being deployed in the home and … [Read more...]
Stay ahead of new tech
Adam Little, DVM, tracks technology developments and their potential in animal health. 3-D printing is on his radar. AAHA also featured 3-D in the article below. Veterinary teams and companies that serve them will want to keep track of these advancements to be ready to apply the technologies when they’re ready for daily practice situations. Source: Exponential Vet, Issue 8, … [Read more...]
Animal health and technology intersect
Exponential Vet is the brainchild of Adam Little, DVM. Adam met with Animal Health Digest during NAVC to discuss his approach to the curation of articles focused to explore the intersection of animal health and technology. He is passionate about technology and his profession. AHD is proud to provide our subscribers a link to his bi-weekly Exponential Vet newsletter. Source: … [Read more...]