IBM has named its Watson Advisory Board, comprised of medical leaders with expertise in areas such as primary care, oncology, biomedical informatics and medical innovation. The board will provide IBM with insights on healthcare issues that could be positively impacted by Watson technology adoption.
Researchers from Columbia University determined that, if examined properly, information contained in large, heterogeneous clinical databases can provide detailed illustrations of the temporal patterns of clinical associations and of the types of clinical associations that are made.
It is time to affirm that there is a public health duty to use surveillance data in new ways, for the sake of both populations and individuals, according to the authors of a perspective paper published Aug. 24 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Implementing health IT in the community setting is a national priority designed to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare. However, community-based organizations who are implementing health IT often lack the expertise to effectively evaluate the systems, according to a perspective published Aug. 1 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
A Columbia University researcher has reportedly developed a virtual “lab-on-a-chip,” which is able to diagnose tiny samples of blood within minutes and can be used in remote locations, according to study findings published online July 31 in Nature Medicine.
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