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.
During the 2011 Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Fla., CSC unveiled Patient in Your Pocket, a wireless clinical integration application for BlackBerry smartphones.
As computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems come online, organizations are integrating CPOE data into their EMRs to leverage safer and more accurate ordering among providers across multiple settings. But thats just the beginning. Facilities are finding new ways to tap that data to boost clinical decision support in other areas.
More organizations are turning to web hosting and concierge health IT service providers to meet their growing needs and keep up with the competition. Beyond the dollars-and-cents aspect of hosted IT is another practical consideration: less fighting with in-house systems allows clinicians more time to focus on patient care.
MEDecision announced at HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., that it is launching a mobile application to enable physicians and other clinical users to access MEDecision Clinical Summaries through smartphones, electronic tablets and similar portable devices.
With HIMSS 2011 and Orlando a distant warm memory now, one of the things that sticks with me is a question-and-answer session following a Physician IT Symposium panel discussion. The session had the deceptively simple title: Tackling the Meaningful Use Requirements. Panelists and audience members alike had questions, a few answers and a lot of insight into the challenges behind that title. Here are some highlights:
Motion Computing announced at the 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibition in Orlando, Fla., that the Motion C5v Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) is now available with the Intel Core i3 processor.
First-time and replacement ambulatory EMR sales rose again last year, and although there are options than ever, healthcare providers are leaning toward tested titans, according to a new report from KLAS.
