by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced that its artificial intelligence based clinical documentation solutions are experiencing a tremendous upsurge in the industry and have been broadly adopted by more than 250,000 physicians. The fast-growing adoption speaks of the excitement […]
Healthcare’s Digital Divide Ushers in a New Year of Patient Distrust
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Black Book’s national panel poll of consumers aims to judge patient adoption and acceptance of technology, as well as measure those impacts on the healthcare industry. The patient survey, conducted from September through December 2016, asked consumers to evaluate the technology they were exposed to, know […]
Applying Data Classification and Governance to Health Data
by Angela Guess Raef Meeuwisse recently wrote in Health Data Management, “How we apply security has to correlate with where we choose to allow electronic information of any value to travel. The term ‘choose to allow’ is used intentionally to indicate that if we have something of value, we need to apply appropriate management and […]
Video: Fighting Disease with Big Medical Data
by Angela Guess The Atlantic recently wrote, “When Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel discovered that Sonia had inherited the gene for a fatal neurodegenerative disease, they quit their jobs to dedicate themselves to finding a treatment. President Obama believes that the American people may be able to help. It cost $400 million to sequence a […]
Can Machine Learning Predict Depression?
by Angela Guess Arshya Vahabzadeh recently wrote in The Huffington Post, “Can machine learning predict the extent and length of someone’s depression, right from the outset? In a study published in Molecular Psychiatry, baseline data from over a thousand people with major depressive disorder was analyzed. The aim was to predict the severity and chronicity […]
Google’s DeepMind Sets Focus on Medical Software
by Angela Guess Jack Clark reports in Bloomberg Business, “Google’s DeepMind Technologies Ltd., an artificial intelligence company owned by the Web-search provider, is pushing into medical technology as it seeks to apply its expertise to health care. DeepMind has built a reputation for creating cutting-edge self-learning software and is pitting its technology against the world’s […]
Big Data and the Zika Virus
by Angela Guess Bernard Marr recently wrote in Forbes, “The World Health Organization has declared the Zika Virus a public health emergency that could affect four million people in the next year as it spreads across the Americas. Big data and analytics have played a role in containing previous viral outbreaks such as Ebola, Dengue […]