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.
Radiology benefit managers (RBMs) are assuming an increasing role in the utilization of imaging, but as the authorization system makes its way into more hospitals and national healthcare policy, a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology questions the cost-effectiveness of RBMs and points to substantial cost shifting to providers.
An analysis of diffusion-tensor MRI images suggested that blast-related mild traumatic brain injury can involve axonal injury, according to a study published in the June 2 issue of New England Journal of Medicine.
Telemedicine has been touted as a promising strategy to increase the efficiency of ICUs. While patients needs and costs of adult critical care continue to rise, the benefits of a tele-ICU intervention may be associated with lower mortality and shorter length of stay, in addition to stricter adherence to best practices, according to a study published in the June 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Siemens Healthcare has received the CE mark for its Biograph mMR system, a whole-body molecular MR with simultaneous MR and PET data acquisition technology.
Nightingale Informatix has partnered with ExpeData to launch Clinipen, an integrated digital writing tool that healthcare providers can use to input structured data into a patient's EMR directly from paper.
After the Senate knocked down the House of Representatives bid to dramatically shrink Medicare, bipartisan leadership of the House Subcommittee on Health is now urging the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to reconsider its move to plug holes in the Stark Law and limit reimbursement for self-referred imaging.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare, has renewed IT company CGI's contract for $44.9 million to help prevent, detect, deter and correct improper provider payments within Pennsylvania's Medicaid Medical Assistance program.
The early measurement of coronary flow reserve (CRF) by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography can be of high value for the assessment of successful reperfusion in acute MI and can be used to predict left ventricular functional recovery, myocardial viability and the final infarct size, according to a study published online May 28 in Cardiovascular Ultrasound.
