Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
Cynthia Rudin, PhD, is a highly regarded computer scientist who’s been eyeing the advance of artificial intelligence into society with equal parts enthusiasm and concern.
By now it’s a difficult-to-dispute likelihood: AI won’t replace doctors making diagnoses, but doctors who use AI will displace doctors who don’t use AI. The hypothesis gets a fresh airing out from the vantage point of the general public.
PrecisionFDA, an open-source cloud platform for genomic and bioinformatics information, has been released in a closed beta form by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has named four U.S. organizations as the 2015 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest Presidential honor for performance excellence.
AEGIS.net, creator of the AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL), has introduced the Touchstone Project, a next generation cloud-based testing platform that applies conformance and interoperability testing in a test-driven-development (TDD) integrated ecosystem.
Federal officials should use new payment policies to reassess how providers are required to use informatics tools, and rethink how quality is measured in a digital world, said AMIA in its comments responding to a request for information (RFI) about how best to implement a range of policies required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded 16 two-year Special Innovation Projects (SIPs) to 10 regional Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations.
Paul Tang, MD, MS, vice chair of the Health IT Policy Committee, offered up details about the Interoperability Task Force’s report to Congress on the clinical, technical, organizational and financial barriers to interoperability.
Jim Busch, MD, Chattanooga, Tenn.-based radiology and president of Diagnostic Radiology Consultants (DRC), is officially the first person in the world to have a 10-gigabit-per-second Internet connection installed in their home.
