January 18, 2023
Via: HitConsultantCommunity pharmacists trusted to deliver care: In 2023, pharmacists will play an integral role as part of the team managing patient care for diseases like diabetes, hypertension, or multiple comorbidities. And to support this work, I predict that we will […]
January 12, 2023
Via: HitConsultantHealth systems will realize their challenges are not transitory but systemic: This year saw health systems facing a myriad of compounding threats – from historic inflation exacerbating their cost structures, front-line clinician burnout driving widespread labor shortages, and increased capacity […]
October 11, 2018
Via: The Medical NewsA research team led by Peter Sloot, professor of Complex Adaptive Systems at the UvA, has managed to pinpoint the mechanisms behind the immune response triggered in patients undergoing open heart surgery. The team’s research reveals that by administering supplementary […]
July 17, 2018
Via: The Medical NewsAn international team led by computational biologist Fran Supek at IRB Barcelona develop a machine learning method to predict unknown gene functions of microbes. The system examines and compares ‘big data’ available on the metagenomes of human and environmental microbiomes. […]
February 28, 2018
Via: HitConsultantArtificial Intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential to transform care delivery by automating, augmenting and amplifying human labor in repetitive cognitive tasks. Just like any tool, however, it can be leveraged with improper or incomplete strategies and create more harm than […]
February 22, 2016
Via: HitConsultantHistorical medical information that resides in claims data, electronic medical records (EMRs), and elsewhere has enduring value, but those data remain, by definition, anchored in the past. EMRs, for example, give us a much better view of what happened than […]