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.
The Institute of Medicine’s 2011 report, Patient Safety and Health IT: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, expressed dismay that patient safety hadn’t improved very much since its landmark 1999 study, To Err is Human.
The global healthcare IT integration market is forecast to reach $2,745.9 million by 2018, up from $1,737.3 million in 2013, according to a report from global market research and consulting company MarketsandMarkets.
Princeton, NJ, April 14, 2014 – NovoPath introduces a customizable web portal to its NovoPath anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS), helping customers efficiently comply with new legislation requiring labs to provide direct patient access to reports. The new feature enables patients with test results to log on to a web portal through a lab’s website and download the documents generated through NovoPath’s APLIS.
Electronic prescribing plays an important role in improving the safety and quality of the prescribing process, however barriers to implementation remain.
The Health IT Policy Committee’s work groups are going through an evolution, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, during the committee’s April 8 meeting.
The University of North Carolina Internal Medicine Clinic reduced its 30-day readmissions by approximately 65 percent by implementing a care-based follow-up program.
