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.
Monrovia, Calif-based Radcal will distribute medical imaging phantoms in the U.S. produced by England-based Leeds Test Objects, according to an agreement announced Nov. 1.
Interoperability between medical devices holds the promise of presenting more patient data and more accurate patient data, delivered in near real time. The end result could be better care at lower cost. These were among the points of discussion at the CE-IT Communitys first town hall meeting, held Nov. 1 and convened by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and American College of Clinical Engineering.
The U.K. House of Commons issued a report Oct. 12 detailing multiple concerns with National Health Services (NHS) oversight of MRI, CT and linear accelerator purchasing and operations.
NantWorks, a newly formed healthcare, educational, scientific and communications technology company led by Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, has acquired Ziosoft.
Two recently available MR imaging techniques, diffusion-tensor imaging and double inversion recovery imaging, can be combined to analyze the structural changes occurring in cortical lesions and normal-appearing gray matter in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published online Oct. 26 in Radiology.
Toshiba America Medical Systems has unveiled a high-density 16-channel flexible coil system. The work-in-progress is an enhancement to its Vantage Titan MR systems.
