The Answer Before the Question
A service provider told a healthcare organisation that its new decision support system would teach the staff as they used it. The claim fails on timing: the machine speaks before the human thinks.
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Buying the Record: Africa's EMR Budget and the Gap It Hides
Every region on the continent is now committing to a national health record, but almost none will say what one clinic costs.
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The Interim Species
A line from an advertisement lodged itself in my head this week: that we have always had an AI partner, but never an AI doing partner. It is a good line — you can almost hear the marketing department exhale…
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When Guidelines Collide: Drug-Drug Interactions in HIV and TB Care
South Africa carries one of the world's heaviest dual burdens of HIV and tuberculosis. That is not only an epidemiological fact; it is a pharmacological one. A large number of patients are treated for both conditions at the same time,…
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What Happened to Downloading EXE Files for New Software?
There was a time when acquiring new software felt like receiving a package in the post. You searched. You found the download link: usually on a forum, sometimes on a site that made your antivirus nervous. You watched a progress bar crawl…
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AI in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring: Opportunities & Challenges
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is the clinical practice of measuring specific drug concentrations in a patient’s blood to maintain a therapeutic range that maximizes efficacy and minimizes toxicity. It is especially critical for medications with narrow therapeutic indices, variable pharmacokinetics, or…
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