Years ago, you’d ask your doctor during his house call, “What’s in your black bag?” and you’d get to peek inside.Old Faithful: The Medical “Black Bag”Now that MD has been replaced by a telehealth practitioner who arrives by video. And the “black bag” is virtual, attracting many providers and executives who are beginning to use it. It’s harder to peek in, but a more relevant question is, “How will the new technologies inside drive value-based care for providers and health plan payers alike?”It
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Data-Driven Healthcare
African Hospitals Adopt Artificial Intelligence to Advance Clinical Genomics
Sophia Genetics, a provider of data-driven medicine, today unveiled the list of African hospitals that have started integrating SOPHiA, the company’s artificial intelligence, into their clinical workflow to advance patients’ care across the continent. Medical institutions at the forefront of innovation already using SOPHiA in Africa include:· PharmaProcess in Casablanca, Morocco;· ImmCell in Rabat, Morocco;· The Al Azhar Oncology Center in Rabat, Morocco;· The Riad Biology Center in Rabat,
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5 Key Roadblocks to Data-Driven Healthcare
This post is sponsored by SyTrue
We know that healthcare organizations face growing volumes of data, and better data helps improve patient care. But with 5 million medical notes created daily, this means nearly 2 billion notes annually – a sea of data.
Add in data from wearables and mobile health apps (165,000 already**), and it’s clear that the data collected per patient is enormous. In this complex electronic information environment lies the key to improving healthcare for providers and
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