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.
Fujifilm Medical Systems is the overall best manufacturer of medical equipment doing business in the U.S. in 2012. Thats according to a survey of end users taken by KLAS, the healthcare vendor-research firm based in Orem, Utah, which annually queries customers for their opinions on, and ratings of, healthcare-product performance.
Researchers from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y., have developed an effective, and potentially safer, nanoparticle-based MRI contrast agent, according to the results of a preclinical study published June 7 in the journal PLoS ONE.
Much of the recent advanced visualization news comes from the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). The biggest development by far is the new learning track debuted by SIIM: Quantitative Imaging.
A study of six large integrated healthcare systems has shown a substantial increase in the use of advanced diagnostic imaging since the mid-1990s, not just among the fee-for-service insured populations but even in HMOs, according to research published June 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Insight Imaging, based in Lake Forest, Calif., and Center for Diagnostic Imaging, based in Minneapolis, two of the largest imaging providers in the U.S., are planning to merge. Financial terms of the merger were not disclosed.
End-user acceptance is critical for the success of bar coded medication administration (BCMA) and other technologies, according to an article published June 3 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
