By PHILLIP MEYLAN With the emergence of two vaccines with high levels of effectiveness, there’s a strong prospect of having powerful new tools to combat Covid-19 in the months ahead. But the road between a vaccine and society returning to normal is far from certain. Millions of doses will need to be produced and intelligently distributed, and critically,…
When I was young, robots were Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet, etc.), the unnamed robot in Lost in Space, or The Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot.…
Relatient focuses on intelligent scheduling, specifically for the larger specialty groups. They touch over 50m patients and 45,000 providers a year, and are now a…
What if digital innovations could be the key to reducing the burden of cancer? CancerX was founded in 2023 as part of the Cancer Moonshot…
In 2021, the fast-tracking of remote patient monitoring, health data interoperability and virtual consultation delivery occurred out of necessity. This created scaled digital processes that…
In his book, “The Age of Diminished Expectations” (MIT Press/1994), Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman, famously wrote, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run…
The most interesting story I read in the past week doesn’t come from the more usual worlds of health and/or technology, but from sports. It’s…
I am dipping into two rumbling controversies that probably only data nerds and chronic care management nerds care about, but as ever they reveal quite…
Tim O’ Connell discusses emtelligent’s capability to take unstructured clinical data and using NLP, match it to clinical ontologies and figure out what disease patients…
Among the many things that infuriate me about the U.S. healthcare system, health systems sending their patients to collections – or even suing them –…
Medicomp provides a medical database within an EMR and which delivers all the diagnoses and other information directly to the clinician. It represents the note…
