Mumbai/Chennai: The Indian rupee on Thursday ended at a record low of 84.06 against the US dollar driven by a strong greenback and outflows by foreign portfolio investments (FPIs) from the equity market. Volatile oil prices amid escalation between Israel and Iran also contributed to this depreciation. The rupee has lost 0.3 per cent in … Read more
Implementing AI at a national scale, particularly in such critical industries as healthcare, is no easy feat. In the HIMSS24 APAC session, “Implementing AI-Powered Triage for a National Virtual and Digital Front Door,” Dr Nirvana Luckraj, chief medical officer of Healthdirect, described how they chose, tested, and deployed an AI-powered clinical decision support system to … Read more
You’ve probably heard of test-tube babies, but have you ever encountered the concept of a human brain grown in a petri dish? Before any dramatic imagery comes to mind, it’s important to clarify that it’s not as graphic as it may seem. These are brain organoids — 3D tissue structures grown in a laboratory from … Read more
“Analytics as a discipline has changed dramatically in the last five to 10 years – and for sure in the past five,” says Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS. “With the explosion of artificial intelligence – the ChatGPT era, if you will – large language models have really shifted the needle on where … Read more
With Assembly polls in Maharashtra due on November 20, the Opposition there is being forced to carry the albatross of the recent Haryana outcome. Right or wrong, the BJP’s shock victory in Haryana has sent a chill down the Opposition’s spine in Maharashtra ahead of thekeenly-contested Assembly polls. Haryana handed a shock defeat to the … Read more
One of the biggest daily challenges faced by healthcare providers is obtaining accurate diagnostic answers in a timely manner. Clinicians spend years training in physical diagnosis, mastering techniques such as listening to hearts and lungs with a stethoscope, palpating the abdomen, and examining painful joints. THE PROBLEM But even in the most expert hands, these … Read more
Hyderabad: Dr Giriraj Ratan Chandak Sir J.C. Bose Fellow at CCMB and director of Sickle Cell Anaemia Mission, and his associates have developed a molecular test for screening of the genetic disease with a mere drop of blood. Though sickle cell anaemia is a fatal disease, only one in three people screened in India is … Read more
Demonstrating benefits to patients and clinicians will greatly drive interoperability, health information exchange and medical record digitalisation in Asia-Pacific. Dr Mahesh Appannan, Ministry of Health Malaysia’s head of digital health, Seyoung Jung, assistant professor and CIO of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in South Korea, and Gareth Sherlock, chief executive of Turimetta Consulting and former CIO at Cleveland Clinic London and … Read more
Three academics based in the United States — Daron Acemoglu from Turkey and Simon Johnson and James Robinson from Britain — won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for research that explored the aftermath of colonisation, to understand why inequality persists even till today, especially in countries that are dogged by corruption and dictatorship. According … Read more
Microsoft announced Thursday that it is unveiling several artificial intelligence enhancements in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare innovations, including new healthcare AI models in Azure AI Studio, new healthcare data capabilities in Microsoft Fabric and developer tools in Copilot Studio. Many of the artificial intelligence enhancements are available by preview. Executives from the company also provided … Read more