Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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NEJM: Changing face of FDA will continue to evolve

Susan Okie, MD, offered a comprehensive overview of ongoing and planned changes within the FDA, in a perspective published Oct. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The review comes as the FDAs commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, MD, completes her first year as the agencys leader.

Study: Telehealth may have role in severe asthma improvements

Telehealthcare interventions are unlikely to result in clinically relevant improvements in health outcomes in those with relatively mild asthma, but they may have a role in those with more severe disease who are at high risk of hospital admission, according an October study published in the Cochrane Library.

The data explosion

According to gurus who think about such conundrums, there are two approaches to possessions: you can own them, or they can own you. The same axiom applies to imaging data.

Agreement expands Bahamas access to online med resources

The College of the Bahamas in Nassau has signed a memorandum of understanding that established the Bahamas Health Sciences Library Consortium; a collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Public Hospitals Authority of the Bahamas and the University of the West Indies-School of Clinical Medicine and Research in the Bahamas.

Drummond certifies first set of EHRs

Drummond Group, under its Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT authorized testing and certification body program, has posted its tested and certified EHR products on the Department of Health and Human Services' Certified Health IT Products Listing.

22 groups meet for inaugural accountable care organization meeting

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) convened teams from 22 medical groups and organized systems of care last week at the inaugural meeting of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Development Collaborative.

AMIA cites concerns to HHS on HIPAA NPRM

Although the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) supports a time requirement of less than 30 days for a patient to receive access to or copies of their individual electronic PHI, the healthcare organization cautioned Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to adopt a reasonable timeline so as not to negatively affect or divert healthcare provider resources to address such requests.

InterSystems releases Cach database

InterSystems has released its InterSystems Cach database, targeting performance processing for event processing systems.

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