Author Archives: health

The end of ‘Legal-ese’: ThoughtRiver Launches new AI-powered Legal Language

Data scientists find legal contracts have more than 300,000 ways of expressing one statement ‘Lexible’ AI software analyses four million documents to create standardised approach Digitisation of analogue contract will save millions of man-hours London, UK. 25th June, 2019: ThoughtRiver, the market leader in intelligent pre-screening, has publicly launched ‘Lexible’, a radical new legal language… Read More »

Understanding C. auris transmission with the healthcare environment

Researchers have now shown that patients who are heavily colonized with Candida auris on their skin can shed the fungus and contaminate their surroundings. This finding provides an explanation for the extensive contamination that often occurs in healthcare facilities with C. auris outbreaks. These results can help inform infection control efforts. The research is presented… Read More »

Health care systems turn to a ‘new’ old medicine: healthy food – MassLive.com

A few times a week, Katie Macomber, medical home care coordinator at Amherst Pediatrics, writes a “prescription” for patients and their families. Macomber is not a doctor, and the prescription is not for medicine. Rather, it is a form from the Amherst Survival Center, designed to look like a prescription, that sends families to the… Read More »