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.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are a hot topic right now. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) includes provisions that call for CMS to work with ACOs to encourage team-based patient care and payment for outcomes rather than patient volume. CMS isnt expected to release its guidelines for ACOs until Jan. 1, 2011, and its pilot program isnt slated to launch until 2012.
The U.S. health IT market is in the early phases of a massive consolidation that will ultimately create a handful of healthcare IT superstores or "healthcare information networks," according to a recent commentary from Marlin & Associates, a strategic and financial advisory firm for the technology and healthcare industries.
Data storage and disaster recovery company InSite One has signed an international distribution agreement with Xeikona Medical Solutions in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the deployment of its vendor neutral enterprise archive, InDex.
White matter hyperintensities present at midlife may allow scientists to more easily predict which individuals may develop cognitive impairment later in life, according to study results published Oct. 21 in PLoS One.
Patient monitoring product provider VRI has partnered with telehealth company Robert Bosch Healthcare to offer customers access to VRI's remote monitoring, equipment logistics, adherence and alert stratification services, along with Bosch's telehealth systems.
The use of high-cost CT and MRI imaging in patients admitted for acute pancreatitis increased 2.5-fold yet was associated with no improvement to patient outcomes, according to a study published in the November edition of Radiology.
VHA, a network of U.S. nonprofit healthcare organizations, has selected RadarFind to provide its radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology to its 1,400 member hospitals to track equipment, patients and staff.
