The pandemic of 2020 upended our lives and created a new normal for how we go about our daily lives. As we emerge from that time, what have we learned? How have we adapted? And …
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Unleashing Precision Medicine to Deliver Personalize Care
(Download a PDF of this article) Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, is a modern approach to healthcare that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. This approach allows doctors …
Continue readingNtC 13: Only Those Who Adapt and Change Survive
Healthcare is undoubtedly one of our most complex industries, with its many inputs and outputs and impact on patients, families, and the people caring for them. Twenty-first-century healthcare is our country’s most challenging industry, beset …
Continue readingTurn and Face the Strange, Changes
(Download a PDF of this article) Implementing change in a healthcare setting is a complex endeavor, with the challenges varying significantly between staff who provide direct patient care and those who do not. For those …
Continue readingNtC 12: The Healthcare IT Conundrum
Healthcare ranks as a high-knowledge and technology-intensive industry. The range of high knowledge and technology-intensive devices for healthcare diagnostics and treatments is immense and constantly growing. Similarly, software advances in data analysis, artificial intelligence, informatics, …
Continue readingDeadly Medication Shortages: Time for a Fix
(Download a PDF of this article) The United States is currently grappling with a critical issue that threatens the health and well-being of its citizens: a shortage of essential medications. This crisis has been escalating …
Continue readingNtC 11: You Say You Want a Revolution
When the Beatles released their song “Revolution”, the radical political left severely criticized it. John Lennon, the song’s author, sympathized with the need for change but rejected using violence to achieve those ends. Like Lennon, …
Continue readingHow Healthcare Caught FHIR
(Download a PDF of this article) The exchange of patient information is a crucial aspect of healthcare delivery, enabling clinicians and other healthcare professionals to access critical information about a patient’s health status and medical …
Continue readingNtC 10: A Platform to Leverage Revolutionary Healthcare IT
Let me start with what I define as revolutionary healthcare information technology. It offers clinicians, researchers, and administrators potent tools to drive the clinical and administrative processes to deliver high-quality, safe, accessible, and investment-responsible medical …
Continue readingBest Medical AI: Cognitive Computing or Large Language Models?
(Download a PDF of this document) Cognitive computing and large language models are two approaches to AI that are often used interchangeably but are different. Cognitive computing is a broad category of AI technologies that …
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