Rebekah Jones, data scientist and manager of the geographic information system team at Florida’s Department of Health was removed from her role a month ago. Through his communication director, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Jones “exhibited a repeated course of insubordination during her time wi
As scientists and researchers around the World called to take a break from their work yesterday (10 June) to support the ongoing protests against racism and hashtags such as #ShutDownSTEM and #Strike4BlackLives emerged on social media platforms, a new report released by Public Health England (PHE),
Global trade in health data is not something new. Adam Tanner, Associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science of Harvard University and author to two books on personal data and privacy, including Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records published in 2
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze one’s chest x-rays has become a promising shortcut to determine if an individual has been infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19. As the method lands itself on various news headlines
Last week, two high profile COVID-19 related observational studies published in renowned journals – The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Lancet were retracted. The NEJM paper released on 1 May claimed that Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers
Dr. Anthony Chang, AIMed Founder; Pediatric Cardiologist and Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) highlighted earlier, “There are more than 20,000 papers on COVID-19 but we are dying of thirst in an ocean of information. We need AI (artificial inte
The earliest data record and processing systems were introduced to the American healthcare industry in the mid 1960s. Their primary purpose was to assist in clinical information management. Around the same time, physician and researcher Dr. Larry Weed brought about the idea of accumulating patients’
As the anti-racism protests continued across the US and people are turning their Instagram posts pitch black today to stand in solidarity with those who are fighting against racial injustice. It’s a strong reminder that no one should take racial harmony for granted and diversity should always be a t
“SpaceX, Dragon, we’re go for launch, let’s light this candle,” said Doug Harley just before liftoff. He and Bob Behnken are the two NASA astronauts that were launched into orbit on the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule system provided by SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturing and space transporta