by Adina Bresge, University of Toronto Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainMuhammad Mamdani understands why people are wary of artificial intelligence having a say in their health care—but he’s even more concerned about the patients who are waiting to benefit from the potentially life-saving benefits of AI-assisted medicine. As vice-president, data science and advanced analytics at Unity Health...
by Cara Murez A new rule allows health care providers to be reimbursed for treating homeless people wherever they are, rather than just in hospitals or clinics. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began allowing this change for both public and private insurers on Oct. 1, KFF Health News reported. “The Biden-Harris...
by Molly Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Family medical history can serve as a roadmap for our health, so it’s important information to share with your primary care physician. An expert at Baylor College of Medicine explains what to know before your next primary care appointment. “Knowing your family history can be helpful in identifying if...
Doing so could diminish the risk of serious injury or death and encourage conversations about secure firearm storage, the researchers say. For the study in Preventive Medicine researchers surveyed 3,510 English-speaking adults in five states: Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Texas, asking if a health care provider had ever asked them whether they have access to...
THEARA COLEMAN 10:29 AM Prapass Pulsub/Getty Images Despite spending more on health care than other high-income countries, the United States still has the lowest life expectancy at birth and the highest rate of people with multiple chronic illnesses, CNN writes, per a recent report. Independent researchers with The Commonwealth Fund analyzed international health statistics, including data from the Organization for...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When it comes to matters of personal beliefs, most older Americans prefer to keep their health care and their spiritual or religious lives separate, a new University of Michigan poll finds. But they do see a role for their health care providers in helping them cope with illness by looking...
by Health Data Science Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Health care is constantly changing, as big data analytics and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence are now being applied in the health care field. These high-tech changes hold the potential to transform patient care. In response to these changes, an international team of scientists has published...
Those data sources are not representative and/or are based on data from current unequal care, says Price, a member of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. In a recent article in Science, Price and colleagues Ana Bracic of Michigan State University and Shawneequa Callier of George Washington University say these disparities are happening despite efforts in medicine by physicians and health systems...
by American Institute of Physics Dr. Samantha Kleindienst Robler taking a photo of an ear (not a patient) using a telemedicine cart. Credit: Reba Lean According to the World Health Organization, 1.6 billion people across the globe are living with hearing loss. Much of that is preventable, stemming from excessive noise, untreated ear infections, and...
Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi explores how hidden biases in medical data could compromise artificial intelligence approaches. While working toward her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi wrote several papers on how machine-learning techniques from artificial intelligence could be applied to clinical data in order to predict patient outcomes. “It wasn’t until the end of my PhD work...
