About 10 years ago in the US, there was a huge effort to measure healthcare quality; to understand how well a system or an institution is providing care and services. Many metrics and interventions were developed as a result to assess efficiency and target areas for improvement. In spite so, a lot o
On top of AIMed Cardiology, AIMed will also be hosting AIMed Radiology again this November, in association with the American College of Radiology. Last week, AIMed invited two of the virtual conference speakers – Dr. Ty Vachon, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiologically Sciences, Uniformed
Following the success this May, AIMed is glad to host AIMed Cardiology again this November, in association with the American College of Cardiology. To launch the virtual conference, AIMed invited two of the event speakers - Dr. Rob Brisk, Specialty Doctor in Cardiology, Clinical Research Fellow at C
Medicine used to be extremely hierarchal. Decisions tend to be made based on someone’s experiences rather than objective measurement. The emergence of evidence-based medicine changed it all. The change believed would continue as data from various sources are becoming available. At the same time, new
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 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