The AI was adapted from an existing system trained to identify people most at risk from the flu, using millions of records from Maccabi going back 27 years. To make its predictions, the system draws on a range of medical data, including a person’s age, BMI, health conditions such as heart disease or diabetes, and […]
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The Royal Bolton Hospital is among a growing number of health-care facilities around the world that are turning to AI to help manage the coronavirus pandemic. Many are using such technologies for the first time under the pressure of staff shortages and overwhelming patient loads. In parallel, dozens of AI firms have developed new software
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Transfusions of blood serum from people who’ve recovered from covid-19 could help severe cases recover, according to a new study from China. Plasma donation: The concept of using blood from survivors—or “convalescent plasma”—isn’t new, but it’s now being tried against covid-19 because there aren’t any drugs known to work. A survivor’s blood is charged up with
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Patients are coming to healthcare interactions with the expectations of a consumer, that is, for personalized, easy, and convenient experiences. After all, they’ve been dealing with digital disruptors such as Amazon and Uber for the past decade or more and have grown accustomed to a much more consumer-centric focus. While primary care physicians like to blame
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NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — It behooves a business to invest in a long-term marketing strategy that features different tools. These can be used to share content, encourage engagements, and perform other actions that elicit the desired reaction from one’s audience. For a clinical trial patient recruitment company, the tools that can be used
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NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — With the advent of digital media, the ability to reach a wide audience has never been easier. A patient recruitment company isn’t limited to traditional methods, as digital platforms can be a vital tool when implemented to reach patients for future trials. Despite the numerous options at one’s
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How many patients feel that doctors and other healthcare professionals are not taking their issues … [+] seriously? (Photo: Getty Images) Getty Over the past couple days the hashtag #PatientsAreNotFaking has been trending on Twitter. Not faking what? Belief that our current healthcare system is somehow working well? Nah, no one should really believe that.
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Dr. Angela Willis, a family physician, solo practitioner and practice owner, in Nashville, Tennessee, bought a practice and had been seeing that previous practice’s patient load for about a year. She had been slowly growing the new patient volume, but it was just that — slow going. THE PROBLEM “We only have three people on
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Some patients who have been hospitalized for vaping-related illnesses are now being admitted to a hospital a second time. The hospital readmissions can take place anywhere between five days and 55 days from discharge, The Washington Post reports. Currently, the reason for the relapses is unknown; however, in a few of the cases, the patients
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‘Millennials’, or Generation Y, is a term used to refer to people born between 1981 and 1996. They are so-called because they were born just at the turn of the 21st century. Moreso a critical defining factor of people of this age is the internet and fast-paced technological innovations. Indeed, the internet is important in
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