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.
In an animal model, irreversible electroporation was found to be a fast, safe and potent ablative method, causing complete tissue death by means of apoptosis, according to a study published in the May edition of Radiology.
IDC Health Insights predicts the HIE landscape will shift dramatically during the next two years, and enterprise HIEs serving integrated delivery networks and health or hospital systems stand to benefit for several reasons. Topping the list: Enterprise HIEs can more easily establish a sustainable business model, and are not as crippled by organizational issues and difficulties with data governance as their statewide and regional counterparts.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)-Europe, an organization that seeks to accelerate the adoption of EHRs by improving the exchange of information among healthcare systems, has re-elected Peter Kuenecke as vendor co-chair for an additional two-year term.
Health IT company EDIMS has signed a multi-year agreement to license medical software company Callibra's Discharge 1-2-3 application to automate the emergency department (ED) discharge process, including providing patient instructions and prescriptions.
Bottlenecks in the emergency department (ED) can send physicians scrambling to prevent chaos while striving to provide optimal patient care. Automated patient tracking, thin-client dashboards, pre-hospital cardiac triage systems and emergency department information systems are helping ED physicians do more of the former while preventing the latter.
