AI & Medical Diagnostics & Remote Healthcare
Articles on AI-powered medical diagnostic systems, remote healthcare applications, telemedicine AI, and autonomous clinical decision support for extreme environments including space medicine, disaster response, and underserved populations.
Bigger Isn't Smarter: How Llama 3.1 70B Outran the 90B Vision Model on Medical Tasks
An unprompted benchmark finding: Meta's Llama 3.1 70B beat the larger Llama 3.2 90B Vision model on medical exams, and the vision model's instruct and base variants scored identically. Here is what those numbers actually say about picking a model.
Adapting TeenyTinyLlama for Brazilian Portuguese Medical QA: The Doctor Llama Project
Research on Doctor Llama, a project featuring compact models fine-tuned from TeenyTinyLlama on Brazilian Portuguese medical Q&A data.
When Earth Is Hours Away: NASA’s AI Doc Hits Space
NASA is deploying CMO-DA, an offline AI clinical assistant for astronauts on deep-space missions where communication delays with Earth make real-time medical consultation impossible.