Information technology (IT) has been promising for decades, largely since the advent of electronic medical records (EMR), to improve and streamline health care as it has multiplied productivity in countless other industries. In addition to the long-standing problems with EMRs, more recently there have been early disappointments with the latest iteration of IT focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), as big players like IBM Watson and Google have tended to over-promise and under-deliver with algorithms that are poorly matched to the data or the patient need. Read More
A head-to-head-to-head trial comparing three top-selling drug-eluting stents (DES) over three years found no statistically significant differences between them in terms of revascularization rates or stent thrombosis, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read More
