Author name: muutaa

The problem of medication shortages is world wide and calls for a global coordinated effort in order to drive stability in the supply chain. Care providers ‘in the mean time’ have no choice but to make the situation work every day. The general public often doesn’t have an appreciation of the stress this puts on […]

In their blogpost on AcademyHealth, Shannon Brownlee and Judith Garber of AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, Lown Institute, highlight key recommendations to eliminate medication overload in older adults.   “Every day, 750 older Americans are hospitalized for a serious adverse drug event. While prescription drugs have improved the lives of individuals around the world, increasing use of

Mary C. Tierney, MS, summarizes the findings of this very insightful survey through highlighting the below items. The full survey is to be found here and the issue of AI in healthcare can be found here AI is not part of their current plans (36%),more than quarter (27%) are assessing and planning to deploy AI

In Healthcare Quarterly (the February 2020 edition), Alice Watt, Maryann Murray, Donna Herold, Sylvia Hyland, Carolyn Hoffman and Mike Cass discuss the background, the success and the importance of embedding the ‘5 questions to ask about your medications’ in any interaction with pharmacists, doctors and nurses. AI could be a helpful partner in these interactions

The Canadian Pharmacist Association is calling for a national action plan to address the issues occurring from medication shortages and to stabilize the supply chain. Through their campaign “Rethink Pharmacists” they are seeking to increase the visibility for this issue (and others) and mobilize professionals and the general public.   Pharmacist James Morrison describes a

Where Gary Hutchinson is writing specifically about the benefits of applied AI for the management of the Rx cold chain on the Forbes Technology Council page, we believe that his trend analysis applies well to the broader Rx supply chain.   “Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the pharmaceutical cold chain — not in the distant,

KPMG recently released their report: Living in an AI world, where the consulting firm is studying the state of AI adoption across different industries and provides an outlook on the obstacles to overcome to accelerate further AI adoption.   For the healthcare industry, Roberto Torres from CIODIVE, summarizes:   ‘Healthcare is bullish on the advantages

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) put together an AI working group to evaluate what needs to be accomplished to leverage the exponential opportunities AI can provide to biomedical research. In an article published by governmentCIO journal the group recommended the following eight recommendations: Support flagship data generation efforts to propel progress by the

On the Forbes Blog, Thomas Caldwell discusses Cognitive Computing In The Next Decade Of AI. He outlines the potential of technologies cross industries and touches on a number of elements which resonate well with MUUTAA’s strategy to bring useful applications to the healthcare domain.   “Cloud computing “big data” pipelines are becoming the norm, with

S. Tonekaboni, S. Joshi, M.D. McCradden & A. Goldenberg write in their publication: “What Clinicians Want: Contextualizing Explainable Machine Learning for Clinical End Use.” about the evolution of applied machine learning in clinical settings.   They explain how well adopted rule based assistive tools are currently being advanced by machine learning (ML) based tools. ML