Pediatrician Mark Hanna, a Resident Physician at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York often witnessed ambulances having difficulties bypassing the heavy traffic during rush hour and wondered if any of them ever arrived too late at an emergency. It was these thoughts that led him into thinking
“Can researchers count on patients to continue doing so?” This was asked in one of the articles published in the latest issue of The Lancet: Digital Health. The piece referenced an initiative announced by the Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) a month ago: seven new data hubs will be launched to suppor
A new study headed by Ziad Obermeyer, a health policy researcher from the University of California, Berkeley found a risk prediction program manufactured by a Minnesota-based healthcare company, was biased against non-white patients. What went wrong? The algorithm made use of illness-tra
AIMed flagship event of the year – AIMed 19 (previously known as AIMed North America) will take place at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, California between 11 and 14 December. Once again, the platform is proud to bring together leading medical and healthcare professionals, technology experts,
Professor Sir Mike Richards, UK’s NHS’ (National Health Service) first Cancer Director and former CQC (Care Quality Commission) Chief Inspector of Hospitals recently found that the present IT (Information Technology) system within the public health service “cannot support safe running of screening p
Microsoft announced last Thursday (17 October) its new partnership with Nuance Communications, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Massachusetts, to create an “exam room of the future” powered by new technologies, to minimize physician burnouts and cater more time for doct
One of AIMed’s flagship events of the year – AIMed Australia, will take place between 12 and 13 November in Hilton Sydney. This is the first time AIMed places ourselves on the other end of the globe and partners with Best Case Scenario (BCS), a leading events management company based in Ne
“While imaging has radically evolved, how images are displayed is basically the same as it was in 1950”. This was what Sarah Murthi, Associate Professor of Surgery at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and Amitabh Varshney, Dean of College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the
According to the latest research finding released by ORCHA, a UK based health application evaluation and advisory organization, only 15% of healthcare applications available to the public for download, meet the minimum safety standards set by its review process, indicating the need for stricter or f