“Our work represents a shift from population-level metrics to personalised health monitoring. Rather than asking if a patient has crossed an arbitrary universal threshold, we are looking at the specific change in their own trajectory...”
The director of the Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, Amanda Randles, is working to change the current gold standard that is the CT scan.
Having spent her career at the intersection of high-performance computing and biophysics, she talks to Healthcare Today about the technical hurdles of noisy data, the shift from population-based averages to personalised baselines, and why she wants to replace invasive procedures with non-invasive tools.
Also in this issue, Clare Vale discusses the need to make British Sign Language interpreters more readily available in hospitals; Evondos UK’s new managing director Nick Hucker reveals how technology can fit into the discharge pathway; and much more...
