What AEPC’s President is Reading

The number of confirmed cases and deaths from the coronavirus continue to grow as it spreads across the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over the coronavirus with…

Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among  people ages 10 to 24, topped only by accidents. After declining for nearly two decades, the suicide rate among Americans ages 10 to…

Is it just teenage moodiness, irritability or something more?  The National Institute of Mental Health reports that about 3.2 million 12- to 17-year-olds have had at least one major depressive…

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke the words quoted above in a 1966 speech…

Last week’s  Weekend Reading segment provided materials on the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as its current and future role in healthcare. While AI offers opportunities to improve healthcare quality and control costs, it…

The term “artificial intelligence” was coined in the mid-1950s, by Professor John McCarthy, which he would define as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” Although there is no standard definition of artificial intelligence (or…