AI: Healthcare’s New Superpower? »
Will radiologists be out of jobs in the next few years? Can artificial intelligence (AI) systems and devices replace doctors as diagnosticians? What are the ethical considerations? These were some of the key questions debated and discussed at the ‘AI in Healthcare’ conference organized by Insight Exchange Network at the Boston Harvard Club on January 18th and 19th.
With Help from Hollywood, BCH Program Revamps Surgical Trainers »
But this isn’t the first time the hospital’s SIMPeds program has pioneered patient simulation–and likely won’t be the last.
From Daily Doubles to Doctors’ Sides »
In the current era of Big Data, the challenge of consuming and analyzing an unprecedented amount of medical information regularly confronts physicians. Watson Health, IBM’s cognitive computing platform, is here to help.
To Cure Cancer, Targeted Therapies Best Future Bet »
“Cancer medicine does not ask us to do precision medicine as a side note; cancer medicine ask us to do precision medicine as a basis,” said Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, at the opening keynote of the Boston Children’s Hospital Global Pediatric Innovation Summit on Monday.
Using Social Media to Forecast the Flu »
By leveraging EHRs, Twitter and Google data with self-reporting, researchers can track spread of disease with “near perfect” accuracy, study finds.
#NowTrending: This Week’s MedTech News »
BCH launches first of its kind pediatric in-treatment survey, LimeLight raises $3M and MoveSense turns smartphone into pulse oximeter
Meet the New CIO of Boston Children’s Hospital John Brownstein »
After working 11 years at Boston Children’s Hospital Brownstein stepping into new role at the institution
Painting a Digital Portrait of Insomnia Using Tweets »
With sleep no where in sight, insomniacs vent their frustrations on Twitter. BCH and Merck crunched the data discovering concerning results
