Much of the press on the future of healthcare states that robots and computers will take over the practice of medicine. Well, no evolution is without challenges – as seen in a recent Wall Street Journal article titled, “Hospital Falters in Bid to Use AI Tech” about the MD Anderson Cancer Center’s experience with IBM Watson’s recent […]
We received word today that HSR has been nominated for the Maryland Tech Council’s (TCM) Emerging Company award, based in large part on our GIS platform, GeoHealth Dashboard. We are truly honored and humbled by this nomination. The GeoHealth Dashboard is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with a data analytic engine that merges demographic data […]
Both Ram and I presented papers at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI2017) conference that wrapped up earlier today in Orlando, FL and are happy to report that our talk our GeoHealth Dashboard was well received indeed. The GeoHealth Dashboard My talk focused on the GeoHealth Dashboard we have built over the past […]
Quite simply, Medical GIS is the application of Geographic Information Systems into the healthcare arena and fall under the broad “Health IT” umbrella. This, of course, just pushes the question back to what is GIS and what can it do for healthcare. What is GIS? The definition of GIS is “a system designed to capture, […]
Ever wonder why Health IT hasn’t revolutionized healthcare as IT has most every industry in the world? We do – and finding how IT can still improve healthcare is one of the reasons Health Solutions Research exists. Information Technology, and advances in technology in general,typically decreases costs throughout the value chain from supplier through consumer, […]