AI

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 | May 30, 2019 Algorithms, datasets, machine learning, deep learning, cognitive computing, big data, and artificial intelligence: IT expressions that took over the language of 21st-century healthcare with surprising force. If medical professionals want to get ahead of the curve, they rather get familiarized with the basics [...]

By Mandy Erickson, Stanford University Medical Center, Medical Xpress | May 29, 2019 Artificial intelligence promises to transform medicine. It is already diagnosing cancers and arrhythmias, providing digital health coaching and predicting which patients are at the highest risk of heart failure. Soon, patients with common symptoms can expect to [...]

The Medical Futurist | May 28, 2019 Remember Monty Python’s brilliant Life of Brian movie scene where the Palestinian insurgent commando, planning the abduction of Pilate’s wife in return for all the horrors they had to endure from the Roman Empire, asks the rhetorical question: what have the Romans ever [...]

By Moni Miyashita and Michael Brady, Harvard Business Review | May 28, 2019 In southeast England, patients discharged from a group of hospitals serving 500,000 people are being fitted with a Wi-Fi-enabled armband that remotely monitors vital signs such as respiratory rate, oxygen levels, pulse, blood pressure, and body temperature. [...]