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Apr
2023
Tag: healthcare
25
Jul
2022
Bionest
Big Tech’s Foray in Healthcare
By bringing its unique strengths to specific health problems, can Big Tech play a larger role in many facets of healthcare?
13
Dec
2021
Bionest
UK Policy Changes Allow Earlier Access to Innovative Medicines for Rare Diseases
Access to new treatments for rare diseases in the UK has often been a challenge. Will a new decision-making framework & funding improve the situation?
30
Nov
2021
Bionest
New Models for Primary Care
Concierge medicine? Monthly membership? Could new models of primary care help raise the quality and patient satisfaction of health care while lowering overall costs for those enrolled in commercial and government-funded insurance plans?
16
Mar
2020
Bionest
Helping to Bring Precision Medicine to Community Oncology Practices
New technology and business models are emerging to help community hospitals and regional networks more successfully implement precision medicine therapies.
11
Nov
2019
Bionest
ESMO 2019: Translating Science into Better Cancer Care
The field of oncology has seen a number of significant advances in recent years. The considerable number of positive reports from the 2019 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) last month clearly reflected the meeting’s theme — the translation of scientific advances into better cancer care. AstraZeneca/Merck was one of stars...
25
Feb
2019
Bionest
Artificial Intelligence and Image-Based Diagnostic Tools
We have recently been hearing much about “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence” (A.I.). While many tend to use the two terms almost interchangeably, there is a distinct difference between the two. Machine learning, also known as “deep learning,” is a field of applied mathematics that uses algorithms and statistical models to build predictive systems...
26
Nov
2018
Bionest
Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Data Improving Hospital Performance, Reducing Costs
Air traffic control-like, multiple screen “command centers,” are proving to be very effective tools for a small handful of busy hospitals to improve workflow efficiency, reduce wait times, allocate resources, and better orchestrate complex patient care and treatment. The new systems combine artificial and human intelligence to analyze real-time data from machines, devices and electronic...
20
Mar
2018
Bionest
Artificial Intelligence Making Gains in Health Care
Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to health care took a major step forward with two noteworthy events in February in the cardiovascular space. In the first case, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the marketing of a clinical decision support tool designed to flag signs of a stroke on computed tomography (CT)...
13
Feb
2018