In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) began financially penalizing hospitals whose 30-day readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia are higher than expected under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Since then, according to the figures released by the
At the moment, medicine and healthcare are still rooted in one size fit all approach. Apart from patients’ age and weight, there is no other sophisticated differentiator to underline the kind of drugs and dosage that a person should take after diagnoses to ensure their treatment regimens are appropr
At the recent AIMed webinar on population health and social inequities, Dr. Anthony Chang, AIMed Founder and Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) said we are probably living in “a pandemic within a pandemic” now because of the disproportionate inf
The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England as well as hospitals in the nearby counties (i.e., High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Reading, Aylesbury, and Swindon) will be adopting a new artificial intelligence (AI) driven software to help stroke patients in their recovery. These hospitals
The importance of data is beyond doubt, especially in medicine and healthcare. Yet, we seldom hear from patients their thoughts on the power of big data. Recently, Brad Power, a follicular lymphoma survivor (i.e., a slow growing cancer which targets one’s white blood cells) wrote in the World Econom
Stefan Bekiranov, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and his team of researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine had successfully developed and implemented a genetic sample classification algorithm on a quantum computer. Researchers believe although quantum c
On top of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Surgery, AIMed will also be hosting a virtual meeting dedicated to healthcare executives this September. Two of the event speakers: Professor Thierry Mesana, President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Dr. Nick Patel,
Dr. Anthony Chang, AIMed Founder and Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) opened the recent AIMed Webinar: Population Health and Social Inequities by noting the disproportionate influx of Black and Hispanic COVID-19 patients. The pandemic has prob
Two years ago, Daniel Acuña, Computer Scientist and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University created an algorithm that can spot high resemblance images including those that have been rotated, flipped or altered in sizes, across a large pool of research papers. A controversial algorithm The softwar