Author name: muutaa

A team of collaborators based in the UK and Quebec developed a COVID-19 simulator (covid.muutaa.org) for an urban environment .This simulator was designed as an educational tool and to assist public health authorities who would like to predict resurgence risks depending on various parameters such as initial population, initial number of people infected, probability that […]

Pharmacists’ responsibilities have increased steadily throughout Canada over the past several years in an effort to recognize the specialist role of the pharmacist, strengthen the front-line healthcare support and drive better and faster care for patients. The recent passing of bill 31 into law in the province of Québec is another example of how the

A Covid-19 vaccine will need equitable, global distribution say Rebecca Weintraub, Prashant Yadav and Seth Berkley in a Harvard Business Review article published today. The article highlights the tremendous work that the GAVI organization has been doing for years when it comes to worldwide equality in the accessibility of vaccines. Considering the financial, logistical, healthcare

In the publication ‘Medication review versus usual care to improve drug therapies in hospitalised older patients admitted to internal medicine wards’, researchers Marialuisa Aiezza, Alessandro Bresciani, Gaspare Guglielmi, Marida Massa, Elena Tortori, Raffaele Marfella, Emilio Aliberti, Arcangelo Iannuzzi deliver yet more significant proof of the true potential of RX review and deprescribing.   They conclude

On medcitynews.com, Harjinder Sandhu wrote a very interesting post titled: AI revolution in healthcare will occur when the tyranny of the screen ends.   His perspective on the quantity and quality of data that is being accumulated in the healthcare domain (specifically in EHRs) is very insightful and underlines the dynamics in our system that

Are you aware of the distinction between machine learning and multimodal machine learning and how it applies to healthcare?   The Consumer Technology Association defines Machine Learning (ML) as an enabling technology of AI that provides systems, using algorithms, data, tools, and techniques; the ability to learn and change without providing/programming an explicit mathematic model

The Global Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Market was recently published by Orbis Research and predicts that the market will be worth over USD 17 billion by 2024, with an expected growth rate of 40+% over the next five years.   For Healthcare AI applications access to data, collection of patient attributes and the communication of

What if there was a better way to predict how a patient would react to a specific medication? How much time, guessing, suffering and cost would that save? Two recent research studies performed on different patient populations underline the power of artificial intelligence to predict which medication treatment options will work best for different individuals.

When we head to our local community pharmacy to fill a prescription we aren’t always aware of the challenging and stressful environment within which pharmacists, our societies front line healthcare professions work. The overload of stress can unfortunately lead to pharmacist burnout and medication errors.   This New York Times article sets the scene for

How can you help healthcare professionals, technology companies and consumers understand and increase adoption of artificial intelligence? One of the ways this can be facilitated is by speaking the same language. Richard Staines from Pharmaphorum reports that the   Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has developed the first ever accredited standard for use of artificial intelligence