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.
An expected spike in healthcare spending resulting from full implementation of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act will disrupt an extended period of lower than average growth, according to the California HealthCare Foundation. The philanthropic organizations 2012 healthcare almanac looks at how much is spent on healthcare, where its being spent and whos doling out the dollars.
Wright-Patterson Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, has alerted 3,800 people of a possible personal data security breach when a notebook containing their names and Social Security numbers was temporarily misplaced after a blood drive, according to a base spokesman.
Social media is emerging as a powerful healthcare tool with a variety of potential applications, but a lack of guidance on how to use it poses a risk for providers who try, according to an article published Aug. 20 by the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The CMIO Leadership Forum presents a two-day, interactive leadership forum on "Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine," Oct.3-5 in Chicago.
The University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care System in Chapel Hill, N.C., has appointed Donald C. Spencer, MD, MBA, to the role of chief medical informatics officer (CMIO).
Radiology, like all of healthcare, is changing in the face of reform, and one noticeable shift is the growing emphasis on evidence-based medicine. As U.S. organizations look to turn best practices into evidence-based policy for their regionsand committees like the Independent Payment Advisory Board aim to make a similar impact nationallythose working in medical imaging can look toward efforts like the Washington State Health Technology Assessment Program as a preview of whats to come.
This is certainly a disturbing trend: this weeks news brought yet another data breach to the forefront. This time, an unauthorized user gained access to and encrypted the server of a small Midwestern surgical practice and essentially held the information hostage in exchange for the password needed to regain access to the server.
