Now that electronic health records are ubiquitous, why does every other industry still leave healthcare in the dust when it comes to personalization? Nobody knows more about us than our healthcare providers, but they don't often leverage that electronic information to help their patients — or themselves. What will it take to make healthcare at least as personalized as our Amazon product recommendations?
Electronic health records are increasingly including technology-aided predictions of how patients may respond to specific medications, known as pharmacogenomic alerts. Two Mayo Clinic Ph.D. candidates are exploring how artificial intelligence can be used to make these alerts more actionable and less intrusive for clinicians, who can suffer from alert overload.
Citing the risk of losing liability insurance, West Suburban Medical Center will no longer allow midwives and family medicine physicians to deliver babies at the hospital, abruptly severing ties with a popular group of providers effective next week.
A new diagnosis of dementia is linked to a 40 percent increase in emergency department visits in the year around a diagnosis, with visits peaking shortly before a person is diagnosed, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Network Open.
Healthcare has evolved dramatically in recent years, with technology driving countless new opportunities, just as demographic and societal factors have created new challenges. This trajectory will continue into 2025, as advancements in AI, remote medicine, and biotechnology continue to reshape healthcare planning and delivery.