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.
Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, has released an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
Siemens Healthcare has implemented its Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, England, for general musculoskeletal, neurological, breast and renal scanning.
Non-invasive MR Imaging is highly accurate in the preoperative characterization and local staging of testicular neoplasms and is a useful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of testicular disease, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Health IT company Clinical Architecture (Booth #812) will introduce Symedical Recognize and new healthcare content integration services during HIMSS10 in Atlanta from March 1-4.
Thursday, March 4, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM The Children's Hospital of Alabama will demonstrate the approach, utility and clinical impact of leveraging the Health Level 7 Continuity of Care Document in an emerging statewide health information exchange program.
Thursday, March 4, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Over a billion clinical notes are created by physicians in the U.S. each year -- primarily produced through dictation and transcribed. With standards, the output can easily integrate with EMRs/HIEs.
Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM This session will share the results of Maine HealthInfoNet's two-year health information exchange demonstration project. With 15 hospitals and one-third of the state's practicing physicians exchanging data, Maine offers a framework for achieving political, financial and IT sustainability.
Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Learn from the experiences of an HIE that has been operating since April 2007. We'll share notes on convening stakeholders, privacy, selecting technology, and installing and operating a HIE.
