London: England’s National Health Service (NHS) said a global tech outage on Friday had disrupted the booking of doctors’ appointments and patient records, but emergency services had not been affected. The outage, which has been linked to cyber security firm Crowdstrike and its impact on the operation of Microsoft Windows, hit operations in multiple industries … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Jaideep Bajaj, Chairman, ZS, to figure out how AI applications will accelerate the future of healthcare. AI in healthcareAI can have everything from macro applications to micro applications in healthcare. Let me just pick on some of the micro ones because they are pretty important too. One really important … Read more
Panaji: The health department is looking to introduce a health management information system (HMIS), and also plans to go paperless at the North and South Goa district hospitals. Under the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), citizens will get a digital health identity i.e. Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) and their health records will be … Read more
SOURCES: Anthony Chang, MD, chief intelligence and innovation officer, Children’s Hospital of Orange County; founder and medical director, Medical Intelligence and innovation Institute (MI3), Orange, CA. Isabel Healthcare: “Overview of the Isabel Symptom Checker.” Bertalan Mesko, PhD, director, The Medical Futurist Institute; author, My Health: Upgraded and The Guide to the Future of Medicine , Budapest, … Read more