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.
Inadequate clinical information systems that lacked the ability to identify which patients should receive decision aids or the ability to capture whether patients' views were considered in subsequent care are some of the biggest challenges facing primary care physicians seeking to implement shared decision making. The results of an eight-site demonstration was published in the February issue of Health Affairs.
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlights findings and lessons from the experiences of grantees funded by the Enabling Patient-Centered Care through Health IT (PCC) Initiative. Grantees were selected to study different approaches for using health IT to create or enhance the delivery of patient-centered care in ambulatory care settings.
McKesson has reported a 1 percent drop in net income for the fiscal third quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2012, even though the revenues were up 1 percent. The company also lowered fiscal year expectations slightly.
Pulmonary researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and University of Washington have expanded the Early Intervention in Cystic Fibrosis Exacerbation (eICE) study, including an additional 12 investigative sites that are now enrolling patients to the randomized study, which was initiated in February 2012.
The application of advances in health IT that can be used to triage decisions in intensive care units (ICUs) could be a “most promising approach” to counteracting some problems with ICU processes, according to a perspective published Jan. 31 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rule seeking to increase public awareness of financial relationships between drug and device manufacturers and certain healthcare providers. Called the “National Physician Payment Transparency Program: Open Payments,” this is one of the steps in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act designed to create greater transparency in the healthcare market, according to the agency.
Physicians who use their EHR's clinical decision support tools are viewed more negatively by patients, according to a study published January in Medical Decision Making.
Mobile network operators (MNOs) should be one of your technology partners because they offer a range of services from access to basic telecommunications bandwidth to full, value-added healthcare services.
