Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Airport @ Mthatha, South Africa. Called the heart and soul of the wild coast. Last year, I was teaching health IT to clinicians in Mthatha, South Africa. Interventional cardiologists. Pulmonologists. Psychiatrists. Family physicians. Surgeons. Orthopedic doctors. More. As senior specialists – sometimes the only ones in town – their perspective of clinical care was deep.
[ Read More ]Cybersecurity has largely garnered attention for all the wrong reasons over the past 10 years. From Yahoo to Target to Equifax, it’s the lack of adequate security that had made headlines and sparked conversations. For many, the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the great equalizer against cybercriminals. Those that advocate its use in cybersecurity
[ Read More ]Artificial intelligence is seeing rapid growth in the healthcare industry, with a projected $6.7 billion in revenue by 2021. Many medical software companies are eying up this space as a way to use AI for lifesaving improvements. Here are a few of the players in this market and the way that they’re innovating key processes
[ Read More ]Whether you are IBM Watson or some other AI system, you seek to find answers to questions that humans can’t answer quickly or analytically. What’s the likelihood of this autoimmune disease in that patient? What does the latest evidence say about this treatment protocol for that cancer? From which zip codes will the next generation
[ Read More ]Information that’s accessible regarding patients is increasing by the day. And we have access to a lot of this data at our fingerprints thanks to advances in technology. We should be able to draw insights from this and put data to work. The first challenge is the huge amount of data that cannot be processed
[ Read More ]The use of machine learning and AI is growing at a rapid rate in the healthcare sector, being able to tackle tasks many thought wouldn’t be possible just yet. Google researchers are doing just that by teaching a AI algorithm to detect common forms of blindness, specifically diabetic retinopathy—which affects almost a third of diabetes
[ Read More ]Research shows that there is an increase of chronic diseases globally. In case of an outbreak of an infectious disease like Ebola, there is usually a rapid spread throughout the entire world. We must find ways of handling the quick spread of outbreaks to reduce the number of people who might contract the disease. In
[ Read More ]Hair loss is a common condition most often associated with aging men, but hair loss actually affects millions of men and women of all ages. Americans alone spend over $3.5 billion annually to treat hair loss, showing just how vast the array of hair loss solutions really is. As with most conditions, multiple problems must
[ Read More ]By Santosh Varughese, president, Cognetyx, delivering ‘Ambient Cognitive Cyber Surveillance’ to protect information assets against cyber security threats, data breaches and privacy violations. I know how terrible hospital record theft can be. I myself have been the victim of a data theft by hackers who stole my deceased father’s medical files, running up more than $300,000
[ Read More ]Healthcare decision-making is a highly complex process. Providers must carefully assess a variety of information from many different sources, including the current medical literature, in-house protocols, and accepted best practices along with their own clinical judgment before coming up with an accurate course of action. Add to this the pressure and narrow time gap during
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