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26 Jul 2024
Generative AI a top priority for Amazon QuickSight
By Eric AvidonThough the BI platform already enables users to analyze data and develop data products using natural language, AWS plans to do more to aid insight generation and user efficiency.
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage underscores software testing dilemmas
By Beth PariseauExperts say efforts to avoid incidents such as last week's CrowdStrike outage will face time-honored tradeoffs between velocity, stability, access and security.
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26 Jul 2024
OpenAI takes on Google with new SearchGPT prototype
By Esther AjaoThe AI engine will provide users with information from the web. The AI vendor is working with publishers such as Newsmax. It will incorporate some features in ChatGPT.
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09 May 2024
Machine learning tool flags undiagnosed immunodeficiency disease
By Shania KennedyA machine learning model can effectively sift through EHR data to rank patients' likelihood of having common variable immunodeficiency disease.
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09 May 2024
What provider traits add up to strong patient loyalty?
By Sara HeathAn Accenture survey showed that patient trust, healthcare access, and ease of doing business are key to patient loyalty.
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08 May 2024
Patient portal use in the ED paves path forward for health IT care gaps
By Sara HeathResearchers said their findings about patient portal use in the ED may mean the care site could bridge health IT care gaps for underserved populations.
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07 May 2024
Healthcare orgs value data analytics for improved care quality
By Shania KennedyA recent report highlights that data analytics is critical for supporting care quality, workforce productivity and cost-saving strategies in healthcare.
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07 May 2024
COVID-era public health programs effective for vaccine access
By Sara HeathResearchers said the public health programs could be fruitful for future preventive care and vaccine access initiatives.
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06 May 2024
Federation of State Medical Boards publishes AI governance best practices
By Shania KennedyNew FSMB guidelines outline how providers can meet their professional and ethical duties when utilizing artificial intelligence in clinical settings.
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06 May 2024
CDC: Maternal mortality rates plummet 2021 to 2022
By Sara HeathIn 2021, there were more than 1,200 maternal deaths in the US; by 2022, the maternal mortality rate shrunk to 817 deaths, signaling key improvements.
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03 May 2024
Machine learning reveals link between metabolites and Alzheimer's
By Shania KennedyA machine learning method recently shed light on how gut microbial metabolites interact with cells’ receptors and contribute to Alzheimer's disease.
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02 May 2024
NCSC updates warning over hacktivist threat to CNI
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC and CISA have warned about the evolving threat from Russia-backed hacktivist threat actors targeting critical national infrastructure, after a number of American utilities were attacked
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02 May 2024
Surveillance tool has mixed impact on hospital outbreak response
By Shania KennedyAn automated tool successfully reduced the size of outbreaks of healthcare-associated pathogens by 64% in 82 US hospitals prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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02 May 2024
Consumers value patient-provider relationships in primary care
By Sara HeathTrust and communication are top-of-mind for consumers assessing the patient-provider relationship in primary care.
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01 May 2024
EMEA CISOs must address human factors behind cyber incidents
By Alex ScroxtonThe 17th annual Verizon report on data breaches makes for sobering reading for security pros, urging them to do more to address the human factors involved in cyber incidents, and highlighting ongoing issues with zero-day patching
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01 May 2024
HHS codifies non-discrimination rules, focuses on LGBTQ+ protections
By Sara HeathThe non-discrimination final rules protect various demographics, including LGBTQ+ patients, and apply to telehealth and AI.
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30 Apr 2024
Persistent data breaches deny people with HIV dignity and privacy
By Alex ScroxtonThe ICO has urged charities and healthcare organisations that work with people living with HIV to do better when it comes to protecting their personal data, after the HIV status of more than 100 people was accidentally disclosed by London’s Central YMCA
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30 Apr 2024
Gen AI patient portal messages OK, but need human review
By Sara HeathUsing generative AI to craft patient portal messages can boost patient education, but human review will ensure patient safety.
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30 Apr 2024
AI project to help older patients understand lab test results
By Shania Kennedy“LabGenie” will use generative AI to contextualize information about lab test results and provide questions patients can use to discuss their results with clinicians.
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30 Apr 2024
How SDOH screening can provide population-level health insights
By Sara HeathVUMC’s ED implemented social determinants of health screening that provided deeper insights into population health initiatives.
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29 Apr 2024
Self-supervised foundation models mitigate bias in histopathology AI
By Shania KennedyImage classification models perform more accurately in white patients than in Black patients, but foundation models may help close these health equity gaps.
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29 Apr 2024
Healthcare industry sees increased investment in generative AI, LLMs
By Shania KennedyOne-fifth of all technical leaders in the healthcare and life sciences industries report over 300% growth in budgets allocated for generative AI projects.
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26 Apr 2024
Community Notes effectively targets medical misinformation on X
By Sara HeathNearly every Community Note flagging and fact-checking medical misinformation on X was accurate, but they mostly went after low-hanging fruit.
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25 Apr 2024
LLMs may enhance geriatric polypharmacy management in primary care
By Shania KennedyChatGPT demonstrated potential in providing useful clinical decision support for primary care physicians managing polypharmacy and deprescription.
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25 Apr 2024
Do better outcomes from female docs signal need for more empathy?
By Sara HeathResearchers suggest the better outcomes yielded by female physician-led care are due to the empathy females usually bring to the patient-provider relationship.
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24 Apr 2024
Computational models forecast pediatric heart valve leakage
By Shania KennedyNew computational models simulate heart valve shape, possible weak spots, and blood flow to help predict potential issues and guide surgery-based preventive efforts.
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24 Apr 2024
Marginal health equity for Black Californians suggests slow road ahead
By Sara HeathHealth equity and general equity in social issues only saw modest gains in the past two decades, which could spell slow progress in the future.
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23 Apr 2024
ONC releases Common Agreement Version 2.0 for TEFCA
By Hannah NelsonONC has released the TEFCA Common Agreement Version 2.0, as well as Participant and Subparticipant Terms of Participation, to further health data interoperability.
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23 Apr 2024
Poor care access leaves youth mental health crisis in limbo
By Sara HeathLimited workforce, challenges balancing care access with school, and stigma are exacerbating the youth mental health crisis.
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22 Apr 2024
Machine learning approach predicts heart failure outcome risk
By Shania KennedyA machine learning tool accurately forecasts risk of adverse outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure with reduced ejection fraction across five categories.
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22 Apr 2024
Survey reveals physicians’ optimism, concerns around generative AI
By Shania KennedyA recent survey showed that physicians’ perceptions of generative AI are rapidly evolving, with a majority reporting that they are receptive to adopting the tech.
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22 Apr 2024
IT leaders hiring CISOs aplenty, but don’t fully understand the role
By Alex ScroxtonMost businesses now have a CISO, but perceptions of what CISOs are supposed to do, and confusion over the value they offer, may be holding back harmonious relations, according to a report
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19 Apr 2024
CEST: Putting HMRC’s IR35 status checker under the microscope
By Caroline DonnellySince its launch in March 2017, HMRC's online IR35 status checker tool has come under fierce criticism and scrutiny, only exacerbated in recent weeks by the disclosure it has not been updated in five years
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19 Apr 2024
How Manipal Hospitals is driving tech innovations in healthcare
By Aaron TanManipal Hospitals’ video consultation services and a nurse rostering app are among the tech innovations it is spurring to improve patient care and ward operations
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19 Apr 2024
Deep learning tool may advance precision medicine approaches
By Shania KennedyThe deep learning-based Lifelong Neural Network for Gene Regulation tool may shed light on how genetic variations influence a patient's drug response.
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18 Apr 2024
With patient trust low, there are few places to turn for medical info
By Sara HeathPatients report low trust in media, NGOs, business, and even their healthcare providers, leaving them with few options as they grow weary of medical misinformation.
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18 Apr 2024
Artificial intelligence tools improve skin cancer diagnostic accuracy
By Shania KennedyA Stanford Medicine-led meta-analysis revealed that artificial intelligence algorithms can help healthcare practitioners diagnose skin cancers more accurately.
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18 Apr 2024
Racial health disparities in premature death pervasive in all US states
By Sara HeathRacial health disparities were steep even in states like Massachusetts, which is among the top-performing in the US.
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17 Apr 2024
Mandiant formally pins Sandworm cyber attacks on APT44 group
By Alex ScroxtonMandiant has formally attributed a long-running campaign of cyber attacks by a Russian state actor known as Sandworm to a newly designated advanced persistent threat group to be called APT44
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16 Apr 2024
CISOs not yet convinced to invest in AI
By Alex ScroxtonCISOs say their eyes are fixed firmly on threats like ransomware and supply chain attacks, and while AI is becoming a threat that needs to be dealt with, it’s not yet an immediate spending priority
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16 Apr 2024
Is clinician empathy the new painkiller for chronic pain patients?
By Sara HeathResearch shows that clinician empathy improves patient-provider communication, which can help clinicians then tailor chronic pain treatments.
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16 Apr 2024
NHS England scouts for national CCIO
By Lis EvenstadThe new national chief clinical informatics officer (CCIO) role comes with a salary offer of up to £146,000 and includes leading NHS England’s Transformation Directorates digital clinical informatics team
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16 Apr 2024
Clinical tool predicts adoptive therapy response in eye cancer patients
By Shania KennedyNew predictive tool sheds light on immunotherapy-resistant metastatic uveal melanoma and how adoptive therapy can successfully be used to treat the cancer.
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16 Apr 2024
Patient advocates explore a patient bill of rights for AI
By Sara HeathThe patient advocacy document includes seven different patient rights to consider as healthcare adopts AI.
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15 Apr 2024
Machine learning framework captures uncertainty in medical images
By Shania KennedyThe Tyche machine learning system is designed to provide multiple plausible medical image segmentations to help capture uncertainty and identify potential disease.
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15 Apr 2024
Machine learning characterizes cardiac function, drug response
By Shania KennedyNew tool accurately quantifies contractile function and calcium handling, enabling the machine learning classification of cardiac disease and cardioactive drugs.
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15 Apr 2024
Top tips for successful patient portal secure messaging
By Sara HeathPatient portal inbox management is key to supporting secure messaging while protecting against administrative burden.
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12 Apr 2024
Deep learning tool may reduce false-positives in screening mammography
By Shania KennedyA deep learning model accurately identified false positive screening mammograms, significantly reducing diagnostic callbacks and unnecessary biopsies.
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12 Apr 2024
Kaiser Permanente zeroes in on food is medicine philosophy
By Sara HeathKaiser Permanente will ramp up its food is medicine programming with the Food Is Medicine Center of Excellence, plus increase research into the programs.
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11 Apr 2024
National Academy of Medicine publishes AI Code of Conduct draft
By Shania KennedyThe National Academy of Medicine Leadership Consortium is seeking input from healthcare and biomedical sciences professionals regarding its AI Code of Conduct.
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11 Apr 2024
Doc bills for patient portal messages are a rare occurrence
By Sara HeathBilling codes for patient portal messages were just 0.9 percent of E&M services in 2020 and just 0.05 percent for 2021 and 2022.
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10 Apr 2024
IR35: HMRC rushing to restore CEST source code deleted from Github ‘in error’
By Caroline DonnellyHMRC has confirmed online repository containing code underpinning maligned IR35 status-checker tool has been taken down ‘in error’ by team working to decommission legacy platform that used to host platform
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09 Apr 2024
UK plc failing on multiple cyber measures
By Alex ScroxtonGovernment report shows 50% of businesses and 32% of charities reported a cyber attack or breach in the past 12 months and organisations across the UK are failing on multiple cyber measures
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09 Apr 2024
Labour promises digital red book and smartphones for children with diabetes
By Lis EvenstadThe Labour Party has announced plans for children’s health records to be put on parents’ NHS App, while also partnering with Virgin Media O2 to give children with type 1 diabetes smartphones to check their blood sugar
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09 Apr 2024
AI biomarker identifies aortic stenosis development, progression
By Shania KennedyAn artificial intelligence-based video biomarker can accurately identify those who might develop or have rapidly worsening aortic stenosis.
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09 Apr 2024
14% of women say Dobbs decision stalled access to abortion
By Sara HeathIn states with abortion bans, one in five women said they know someone who struggled to access an abortion post-Roe.
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08 Apr 2024
UK vet network CVS hit by cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonOperations at UK-based veterinary network CVS have been disrupted by a cyber incident of an as-yet undisclosed nature
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08 Apr 2024
Machine learning predicts hospitalization during cancer treatment
By Shania KennedyMachine learning models using daily step counts and other wearable data accurately predicted unplanned hospitalization during concurrent chemoradiotherapy.
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08 Apr 2024
Machine learning predicts risk of suicide in patients initiating care
By Shania KennedyA machine learning tool to predict suicide attempts can accurately stratify high-risk patients scheduled for outpatient mental healthcare intake appointments.
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05 Apr 2024
UKtech50 2024 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT
By Lis EvenstadComputer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list
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05 Apr 2024
Clinical deterioration AI contributes to reduced care escalation risk
By Shania KennedyAn AI-driven clinical deterioration intervention was associated with a 10.4 percent reduction in the risk of escalations of care during hospitalization.
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04 Apr 2024
Computational model uses biomarkers to predict Alzheimer's progression
By Shania KennedyA personalized mathematical model analyzes data from brain scans, cerebrospinal fluid and memory tests to predict how an individual’s Alzheimer’s may progress.
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04 Apr 2024
Disrespectful healthcare experience affects 33% of LGBT patients
By Sara HeathDisrespectful healthcare experiences led to LGBT patients being less likely to seek care and more likely to switch providers.
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03 Apr 2024
RDP abused in over 90% of cyber attacks, Sophos finds
By Alex ScroxtonThreat actors continue to see great success using simple, tried and tested methods, and many defenders are failing to do the basics
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03 Apr 2024
Do patients perceive healthcare’s gains in patient safety?
By Sara HeathHospitals have improved on key patient safety metrics, but whether patients perceive those improvements is a matter of receiving inpatient or outpatient care.
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03 Apr 2024
US lags in usual source of care, primary care access
By Sara HeathAdults in the United States are among the least likely to have a usual source of care, like a primary care provider.
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02 Apr 2024
Machine learning approach may help tailor precision medicine treatments
By Shania KennedyNew machine learning tool uses data on individualized molecular interactions to predict how a patient’s immune system will respond to foreign cells.
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02 Apr 2024
Nursing workforce diversity increases, but room for growth remains
By Sara HeathGrowth in nursing workforce diversity is welcome news for a healthcare industry focused on health equity.
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01 Apr 2024
NIH funding development of AI tools for health disparity research
By Shania KennedyThe “Trustworthy AI to Address Health Disparities in Under-resourced Communities,” project is set to enhance the explainability of AI-driven risk prediction models.
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01 Apr 2024
AI reveals race-based differences in the expression of depression
By Shania KennedyNew study shows that language-based predictive models for detecting depression severity may generalize well to white Americans, but not to their Black counterparts.
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29 Mar 2024
Organisations getting better at spotting identity fraud
By Alex ScroxtonAs the barriers to committing identity fraud continue to drop, organisations should consider more sophisticated technical measures to successfully up their game, according to a report
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29 Mar 2024
Analysis highlights five preventable suicide risk profiles
By Shania KennedyMental health, substance use, physical health and intimate partner conflicts are some of the most significant risk factors for suicide identified in a new study.
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29 Mar 2024
Patient data access speeds up after 21st Century Cures Act
By Sara HeathThe faster pace of patient data access calls into question how providers prepare clinical notes and communicate with laboratory testing sites.
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28 Mar 2024
Online big data dashboard to help map enteric infectious diseases
By Shania KennedyThe Planetary Child Health & Enterics Observatory dashboard aims to shed light on the global public health threat of diarrheal diseases in children.
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27 Mar 2024
Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Scottish NHS board
By Alex ScroxtonData stolen from an earlier attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been leaked by a ransomware gang that claims to be in possession of much more content
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27 Mar 2024
HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms
By Caroline DonnellyDespite a previous pledge that HMRC’s IR35 online status checker tool will be continually updated as employment cases and tribunals occur, a freedom of information request confirms CEST has not been updated since October 2019
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27 Mar 2024
Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
By Alex ScroxtonAnalysis from Google has found that zero-day vulnerabilities are much more heavily exploited for espionage purposes than for financially motivated cyber crime
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27 Mar 2024
Chronic care access limits diagnosis & quality for women
By Sara HeathIt takes women more than a year longer to get a diagnosis than men, spelling out an issue with chronic care access and clinical quality.
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27 Mar 2024
Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE
By Hannah NelsonThe Carequality interoperability framework facilitates the exchange of over 745,000,000 documents every month across disparate HIE networks, regions, and technologies.
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27 Mar 2024
Patient satisfaction suffers under poor hospital admission & discharge
By Sara HeathPatient satisfaction scores were lower when patients did not receive good post-discharge notes and communication.
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27 Mar 2024
Machine learning tools predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, uptake
By Shania KennedyNew study suggests that principles of behavioral economics – such as risk aversion – may have a significant impact on attitudes around vaccination and immunization.
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26 Mar 2024
Shareholders win when businesses do better at cyber
By Alex ScroxtonThe more advanced a company’s cyber security performance, and the more engaged its board is with security issues, the greater the return for shareholders, a report has found
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26 Mar 2024
Retail health clinic utilization climbed by 202% by 2022
By Sara HeathAlthough still one of the least-visited alternative care sites, retail health clinic utilization soared between 2021 and 2022.
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26 Mar 2024
NHS SBS launches digital advisory framework
By Lis EvenstadThe Digital Health Advisory Services framework agreement aims to provide a way for health and care organisations to get help with digital transformation and skills
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26 Mar 2024
Limited EHR integration impacts use of clinical communication tools
By Hannah NelsonInterviewed customers of clinical communication vendors PerfectServe, TigerConnect, and Baxter reported the highest levels of EHR integration in a new KLAS report.
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26 Mar 2024
Deep learning model detects COVID-19 infection using lung imaging
By Shania KennedyA deep neural network-based automated detection tool could assist emergency room clinicians in diagnosing COVID-19 effectively using lung ultrasound images.
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26 Mar 2024
Digital maternal health tools hold promise, but equity question remains
By Sara HeathPatients are using digital maternal health tools to manage care, but racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to point out cultural competence issues.
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25 Mar 2024
Healthcare leaders launch Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network
By Shania KennedyThe newly formed Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network aims to advance the quality and safety of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
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22 Mar 2024
Machine learning predicts perioperative peripheral artery disease risk
By Shania KennedyMachine learning models accurately forecasted one-year major adverse outcomes following endovascular intervention for peripheral artery disease.
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22 Mar 2024
Health equity investment slated to continue into 2024
By Sara HeathNearly every organization plans to maintain their current health equity investments, with 73 percent saying they may increase their equity priorities.
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21 Mar 2024
NCSC guidance to help CEOs work through cyber incidents
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC has published in-depth guidance on how business leaders should respond to a cyber attack or data breach. Learn about some of the key steps you will need to follow
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21 Mar 2024
IR35 reforms: IT contractors urged to reclaim tax they may have overpaid in off-payroll settlements
By Caroline DonnellyWith the government set to fix the settlements offset issue from 6 April, contractor insurance firm Qdos is urging individuals who worked for non-compliant IR35 organisations to see if they can reclaim any money they have overpaid
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21 Mar 2024
Artificial intelligence unpredictably impacts radiologist performance
By Shania KennedyAI improves performance for some radiologists, but not others, raising questions about a one-size-fits-all integration approach for the tools in healthcare.
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20 Mar 2024
UK’s cyber resilience stagnates as more fall victim to attacks
By Alex ScroxtonThe government is calling on businesses to ramp up their cyber protections as study shows improvements to resilience are stagnating amid an ever-growing volume of attacks
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20 Mar 2024
KLAS: Epic leads EHR mindshare for independent ambulatory care orgs
By Hannah NelsonEpic and athenahealth are dominating EHR mindshare across independent ambulatory care organizations, according to a new KLAS report.
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20 Mar 2024
Healthcare orgs face significant data modernization challenges
By Shania KennedyHealthcare organizations report an average 124% ROI for their data investments, but many cite data management and integration as major roadblocks.
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19 Mar 2024
Patient portal message responses vary by race, ethnicity
By Sara HeathData shows that for Asian, Hispanic, and Black patients, the odds of getting a patient portal message response from a physician are lower.
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19 Mar 2024
Google Health shares generative AI, health equity research updates
By Shania KennedyGoogle Health detailed recent advances in its generative AI research, alongside efforts to improve health equity and disease detection.
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19 Mar 2024
MRI-based prostate cancer risk calculators prone to underprediction
By Shania KennedyTwo MRI-based models to predict prostate cancer risk performed well in European and North American cohorts, but were prone to underestimate risk in a third group.
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19 Mar 2024
Better change management key to patient self-scheduling buy-in
By Sara HeathPatients appear on board for patient self-scheduling technologies, but buy-in from providers is another story.
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18 Mar 2024
The Security Interviews: Alex Yampolskiy, SecurityScorecard
By Alex ScroxtonAlex Yampolskiy conceived the idea for risk management specialist SecurityScorecard after getting stung by a SaaS supplier that was being cavalier with its customer data. He tells his story to Computer Weekly
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18 Mar 2024
Arkansas Heart deploys Oracle Health EHR to enhance interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe Oracle Health EHR implementation aims to improve patient outcomes by enhancing health data interoperability across Arkansas Heart's network of ambulatory clinics and two hospitals.
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18 Mar 2024
CCS slammed over errors in G-Cloud 14 data protection documents
By Caroline DonnellyThe government’s procurement arm is under fire again, after prospective suppliers to the G-Cloud 14 framework raised complaints about CCS’s quality control procedures