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On McKinsey’s website, leading artificial-intelligence researcher Stuart Russell shares in a conversation with James Manyika why a new approach for AI is necessary. A very interesting read from which the last of the Q&A is included here. Prof. Russell pinpoints the current desire for the application of AI as a partner in a dependent decision […]

A reference to a passage from Eric Topol’s book DeepMedicine and reissued on his twitter account today to provoke the thoughts:   “We already accept back boxes in medicine. For example, electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective for severe depression, but we have no idea how it works. Likewise, there are many drugs that seem to

Karen Conway provides an interesting analysis on SupplyChainBrain.com about the potential and application opportunities of AI in the healthcare supply chain. The below provides a summary of her writings and in particular provides the list of promising applications she sees in the supply chain.   Predictive analytics. One of the more exciting applications of AI

Following our post on February 12th about effective AI/ML adoption strategies, we continue to research the areas where we will see concrete gains from AI/ML deployments. This is our quest to demonstrate to our customers that results can be achieved now, and the ROI for AI deployment is real. The consensus seems to be that

Surescripts released results of a Surescripts commissioned survey of 1,001 U.S. patients to understand their prescription challenges, desires and behavior—and how their experience with their prescriptions affects the healthcare decisions they make.   I’m providing the key findings that confirm the need for action and the need for solutions to make the decision making process

A reference and snapshot of an article published named ‘Expert-augmented machine learning’ in PNAS by researchers Efstathios D. Gennatas, Jerome H. Friedman, Lyle H. Ungar, Romain Pirracchio, Eric Eaton, Lara G. Reichmann, Yannet Interian, José Marcio Luna, Charles B. Simone II, Andrew Auerbach, Elier Delgado, Mark J. van der Laan, Timothy D. Solberg, and Gilmer

On May 13th and 14th 2020, the 4th Annual Global Clinical Trials Connect Conference will take place in London, UK. In the programme we find the description of the main theme of the meetings.   The Pharma and Bio-Tech companies are consistently evolving and new clinical studies, technologies and advancements in care and treatments have

‘Team Alice’   This week, the University at Buffalo launched ‘Team Alice’ to combat medical errors and polypharmacy in the elderly. A multidisciplinary and cross faculty initiative to identify and tackle the barriers in our current system to increase patient safety. As part of the launch, patient safety advocate Mary Brennan-Taylor told the shocking story

A review of press releases and published articles from the last two weeks demonstrate that the challenge to increase Rx adherence continues (will it ever stop?). We found the following pieces to be thought provoking and worth mentioning.   Melissa B. Gilkey, PhD; Lauren A. Cripps, MA; Rachel S. Gruver, MPH; Deidre V. Washington, PhD;

Successful enterprises often attribute their consistent growth or wellbeing to successful strategic planning efforts, including the definition of meaningful KPI’s and the deployment of MBO strategies to align the troops and deliver the results.   They make the significant necessary changes when business is going very well in order to respond to changing environments, emerging