By Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare | June 11, 2019 People who identify as a sexual and gender minority are underrepresented in medical research. One significant reason: Stigma and discrimination often drive members of these groups away from the healthcare system, according to researchers. That makes it difficult for doctors and research [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | June 7, 2019 Today’s health system isn’t built to treat patients with chronic diseases, yet 86 percent of our healthcare expenses go toward chronic care management. Telehealth can change that, and can better prepare providers to deal with what has become an epidemic. To [...]
By Fred Donovan, HIT Infrastructure | June 7, 2019 The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt stronger rules on medical devices that use artificial intelligence algorithms. In a letter to the FDA about its proposed regulatory framework, AMIA commended the agency for [...]
By Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare | June 6, 2019 The majority of healthcare organizations are experimenting with at least one of these emerging technologies: distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, extended reality or quantum computing. And 68% of healthcare executives believe the combination of these technologies will have a "transformational" or "extensive" impact [...]
The Medical Futurist | June 6, 2019 Mental health algorithms mimicking empathy? A.I. outsmarting human doctors? Simple big data analytical software presented with clever marketing tactics? It’s difficult to assess the actual state of play when it comes to artificial intelligence in healthcare. Moreover, there’s no database that contains all [...]
By Andrea Park, Becker's Hospital Review | June, 6, 2019 LifeBridge Health and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, both based in Baltimore, named Socially Determined, a Washington, D.C.-based data analytics startup, the winner of their inaugural pitch competition this week, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. Socially Determined competed against five other [...]
