In a recent interview with AIMed, Edward (Ted) Shortliffe, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Columbia University; Downtown Phoenix Campus of Arizona State University, and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, described his greatest achievement as “the sequential body of work ap
It all started with one computer. Then, at a point in time, we learned to connect it with other computers. Eventually, personalized computers emerged and individuals began to own the hardware that are helping them to do the work. Conversely, things run a little differently for software. While most
The UK's National Health Service runs an innovative scheme to empower working clinicians with the technical and business know-how of entrepreneurs from the cutting-edge business world. The NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme is equipping over 370 clinicians with skills, knowledge and experience fro
Employers, employees, educators, workforce development professionals and policy makers are trying to figure out the future of work and how to adjust. Megatrends such as digitization, the rise of automation, and shifting demographics are altering the way we work, and the way companies relate to worke
Quotes from Jeremy Howard at AIMed North America 2017 Jeremy Howard presenting at AIMed North America 2017 A question I was asked at AIMed 2017 was: “When will imaging machine learning (ML) reach high enough accuracy to be clinically useful?” For me, that’s not the interesting question facing this
It seems that almost everyone who has anything to do with sick care is trying to innovate, move the needle, disrupt, create game changers and win the 4th industrial revolution. It could be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. That particularly applies to digital health physician entrepreneur
When it comes to eCare, patients are way ahead of their doctors. During the summer of 2015 Neilsen surveyed 5014 patients and 626 physicians. Among the specific results found are that while 36% of patients would like 24/7 access to telephone advice, only 14% currently have it. Text reminders for ap
By Timothy Chou, PhD As a healthcare professional, you might agree that something has to change in our healthcare system. While we could debate public policy, insurance carriers and the law, I’ll make a case there are significant steps in technology, which could fundamentally change healthcare in th
The big data in medicine will more than quadruple in value within the next decade as more healthcare data is collected and the cost of storage becomes lower. A market intelligence report by BIS Research, forecasting the global big data in healthcare market in the period 2017-2025, said that the big