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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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06 Feb 2024
UK’s McPartland Cyber Review to probe trust in technology
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK government has launched a cyber security review that will investigate how best to give businesses the confidence they need to use new technologies
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06 Feb 2024
How a Primary Care-Based Housing Instability Program Cut Outpatient Utilization
By Sara HeathThe housing instability program reduced primary care visits by 2.5 visits and outpatient visits by 3.6.
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05 Feb 2024
HHS Launches 3 Public-Private Partnerships for Food Is Medicine Efforts
By Sara HeathThe partnerships with Instacart, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Feeding America will focus on research on and implementation of food is medicine programs nationwide.
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05 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Tool Predicts Heart Failure Treatment Response
By Shania KennedyNew machine learning approach may help identify and predict diuretic responsiveness among patients with acute decompensated heart failure.
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05 Feb 2024
Gender-Affirming Care Access Laws Affect 38% of Trans Youth
By Sara HeathThere are gender-affirming care access restrictions in 23 states, which affects 38 percent of trans youth in the US.
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02 Feb 2024
Predictive Model Accurately Tracks Alzheimer's Disease Progression
By Shania KennedyThe DETree framework combines Alzheimer’s progression modeling with individual prediction to forecast how a patient’s disease may develop over time.
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02 Feb 2024
Patient Education Key as Home Medical Devices Pose Patient Safety Threat
By Sara HeathAt-home medical devices can be confusing to use, posing a potential patient safety hazard, but experts say patient education and user-centered design could help.
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31 Jan 2024
VA Cuts Homelessness, SDOH by 55% with Housing First Model
By Sara HeathThe crux of VA’s housing first model was the addition of wraparound care and social services to address homelessness and other SDOH.
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31 Jan 2024
Epic Study Finds Health Data Exchange Lowers Risk of Code Blue
By Hannah NelsonIn patients with a higher level of acuity in the ED, the presence of outside health data is linked to a 34 to 63 percent reduced risk of a code blue event, an Epic study found.
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31 Jan 2024
Safeguards Needed for Generative AI EHR Data Summarization
By Hannah NelsonA viewpoint published in JAMA notes that EHR data summarization LLMs could perpetuate bias, underscoring the need for FDA oversight.
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31 Jan 2024
Data-Focused Strategy May Hinder Generative AI Deployment in Healthcare
By Shania KennedyNew Deloitte survey suggests that healthcare leaders must focus on data, governance, consumers, and the workforce to successfully implement generative AI.
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31 Jan 2024
Are Consumers Left Behind in Healthcare’s Generative AI Talks?
By Sara HeathWhile focus on data quality and regulatory compliance is high, the consumer perspective is missing from healthcare’s talks of generative AI.
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30 Jan 2024
Machine Learning, ‘Liquid Biopsy’ to Bolster Early Cancer Detection
By Shania KennedyResearchers leveraging a machine learning-based “fragmentomics” approach may be able to detect cancer sooner using smaller blood samples than traditional methods.
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30 Jan 2024
Patient-Provider Communication About Dementia Left Wanting
By Sara HeathSocial stigma, among other barriers, get in the way of patient-provider communication about dementia, but there are key strategies to overcome that.
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29 Jan 2024
Data Augmentation May Improve LLM Generalization on Clinical Notes
By Shania KennedyUsing large language models in a healthcare domain-informed manner could address dataset shifts and enhance generalizability in AI-driven medical note analysis.
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29 Jan 2024
73% of Digital Health Companies Use Standards-Based EHR APIs
By Hannah NelsonWhile most digital health companies use standards-based EHR APIs for EHR integration, nearly the same number of companies reported the use of proprietary EHR APIs.
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29 Jan 2024
UC San Diego Risk Stratification AI Predicts Sepsis, Reduces Mortality
By Shania KennedyUC San Diego Health’s artificial intelligence tool to predict sepsis infection risk in emergency department patients has reduced mortality by 17 percent.
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29 Jan 2024
What’s Driving Pediatric Use of Urgent Care & Retail Health?
By Sara HeathThe number of kids visiting an urgent care or retail health clinic increased from 21% in 2021 to 28 percent in 2022, CDC said.
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26 Jan 2024
Artificial Intelligence Models May Enhance Immunotherapy Treatments
By Shania KennedyResearch findings from Cleveland Clinic and IBM demonstrated how AI models can better show how immune systems recognize threats, which may improve immunotherapies.
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25 Jan 2024
Pennsylvania HIEs, Health IT Vendor Partner on SDOH Referral Tool
By Hannah NelsonHealth IT vendor findhelp and Pennsylvania's Consortium of HIEs are creating a platform called PA Navigate that aims to improve SDOH referrals and drive health equity across the state.
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25 Jan 2024
Bugcrowd sees surge in vulnerability submissions, led by public sector
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023
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25 Jan 2024
Tony Blair Institute calls for creation of NHS Data Trust
By Lis EvenstadThe NHS would have a majority stake in the data trust, with additional investment from private sector companies, harnessing anonymised data as a competitive asset, proposes the think thank
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25 Jan 2024
ML Model Predicts Complications Following Cardiovascular Interventions
By Shania KennedyA machine learning model outperformed standard tools for predicting death and other serious complications in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
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24 Jan 2024
WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024
By Alex ScroxtonA zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year
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24 Jan 2024
Preventable Hospitalizations More Common for Black Patients
By Sara HeathThe analysis of Medicaid enrollees showed that Black patients had higher preventable hospitalization rates for heart failure than their White counterparts.
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24 Jan 2024
AI will heighten global ransomware threat, says NCSC
By Alex ScroxtonThe benefits of artificial intelligence to cyber criminals being well-known, the NCSC now assesses it’s likely AI will soon be widely used to enhance ransomware attacks
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24 Jan 2024
55% of Rural Orgs Lack Labor & Delivery, Cause Maternity Deserts
By Sara HeathExperts may consider staffing and reimbursement policies to alleviate the nation’s growing maternity desert and care access problems.
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23 Jan 2024
Treat cyber risk like financial or legal issue, says UK government
By Alex ScroxtonUK government and NCSC launch proposed code of practice on cyber security governance to help directors and business leaders toughen their defences
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23 Jan 2024
Leak of 26 billion records may prove to be ‘mother of all breaches’
By Alex ScroxtonThe discovery of a dataset comprising 26 billion stolen records may prove to be record-breaking in both its size and the danger it poses to ordinary people
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23 Jan 2024
UCLA Releases Public-Access Surgical Outcomes Database for AI Training
By Shania KennedyThe new Medical Informatics Operating Room Vitals and Events Repository is set to advance the development of AI algorithms to predict surgical outcomes.
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23 Jan 2024
Patient Boarding in the ED Soars by A Third at MGH, Harms Experience
By Sara HeathMass General Hospital is building out inpatient capacity to reduce the practice of boarding patients in the emergency department, which harms experience.
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22 Jan 2024
KLAS: Improved EHR Efficiency Can Mitigate Early-Stage Clinician Burnout
By Hannah NelsonTo help address clinician burnout in its early stages, organizations can focus on EHR efficiency by providing additional EHR training, KLAS authors said.
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22 Jan 2024
WHO Releases Governance Guidelines for Generative Artificial Intelligence
By Shania KennedyNew guidance from the World Health Organization outlines how stakeholders can ensure the appropriate use of large multi-modal AI models in healthcare.
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19 Jan 2024
ONC Publishes Draft USCDI v5 to Drive Health Data Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonONC added 13 new data elements to United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Draft Version 5, including “Sex Parameter for Clinical Use.”
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18 Jan 2024
Tribal Healthcare System Selects MEDITECH Cloud-Based EHR
By Hannah NelsonWinnebago Comprehensive Healthcare System and 36 other healthcare organizations tapped the MEDITECH cloud-based EHR platform in 2023.
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18 Jan 2024
AI-Driven Eye Exams May Increase Screening Rates Among Diabetic Youth
By Shania KennedyDiabetic eye exams that leverage artificial intelligence may increase exam completion rates and improve patient outcomes among children and adolescents.
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17 Jan 2024
Deep Learning Tool May Help Detect Pediatric Rheumatic Heart Disease
By Shania KennedyA new deep learning model can detect rheumatic heart disease in children with high accuracy, which could improve screening in areas lacking cardiologists.
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17 Jan 2024
Medication Errors in Kids Cut in Half with Better Caregiver Education
By Sara HeathA more in-depth caregiver education process during hospital discharge cut medication errors in kids from 54% to 30%.
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17 Jan 2024
CMS Releases Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule
By Hannah NelsonThe CMS final rule requires impacted payers to implement an HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API to automate the prior authorization process between providers and payers.
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17 Jan 2024
University of Massachusetts DL Model to Predict Alzheimer’s Onset
By Shania KennedyNew NIH-funded project aims to spur the development of a deep learning tool for predicting Alzheimer's two or more years before symptom onset.
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16 Jan 2024
CommonWell Health Alliance Adds Health IT Vendor to HIE Network
By Hannah NelsonHealth IT vendor ModuleMD has joined the CommonWell Health Alliance to drive health information exchange (HIE) across its network of over 75,000 referral providers.
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16 Jan 2024
AI Medical Scribe Deepens Epic EHR Integration to Enhance Workflows
By Hannah NelsonImprovements to the EHR integration include tools to customize AI medical scribe notes and compatibility with Epic SmartData elements.
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15 Jan 2024
IT failure caused weekend chaos at Sussex hospitals
By Lis EvenstadThe critical incident at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, caused by IT issues on Sunday night, has now been resolved
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12 Jan 2024
Generative AI May Help Flag Social Determinants of Health in EHR Data
By Shania KennedyFine-tuned large language models were able to accurately identify 93.8 percent of patients with adverse SDOH who could benefit from additional support.
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12 Jan 2024
SDOH, Transportation Access a Problem for 5.7% of Patients
By Sara HeathLike other SDOH, transportation access affects different racial/ethnic, age, and geographic groups differently, CDC data showed.
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11 Jan 2024
YouTube Unveils Public Health & First Aid Education Videos
By Sara HeathYouTube created the public health and first aid education videos as part of its overarching efforts to combat medical misinformation online.
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11 Jan 2024
MHRA launches roadmap for medtech regulations
By Lis EvenstadThe roadmap covers plans for regulations on medical technologies, including implantable devices, artificial intelligence and healthcare software, with core elements of a new framework to be in place by 2025
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11 Jan 2024
Cisco fixes high-impact flaw in unified comms platform
By Alex ScroxtonCisco unified comms customers are urged to patch a critical vulnerability in Unity Connection, a messaging and voicemail product
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11 Jan 2024
Machine Learning Model Predicts Individual Risk for Multiple Myeloma
By Shania KennedyA new computational model can forecast an individual’s personalized multiple myeloma prognosis based on their tumor genomics and treatment regimen.
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11 Jan 2024
HHS Finalizes Religious Rights Rules Protecting Patient Care Access
By Sara HeathThe final rule rescinds a 2019 statute that HHS said impeded patient care access under the guise of conscience and religious rights.
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10 Jan 2024
Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors
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10 Jan 2024
Risk Prediction Model Forecasts Intensive Care Unit Admission, Survival
By Shania KennedyA population-level risk model may help researchers and clinicians better flag patients at risk of intensive care unit admission and adverse outcomes.
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09 Jan 2024
Babuk Tortilla ransomware decryptor made available
By Alex ScroxtonA joint effort between Cisco Talos, Avast and the Dutch police will bring relief to many victims of a variant of the Babuk ransomware known as Tortilla
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09 Jan 2024
Wales makes headway with electronic prescriptions roll-out
By Lis EvenstadElectronic prescribing will be deployed in both primary and secondary care, while a shared medicines record will be live by the end of March 2024
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09 Jan 2024
Interwell Health Adds 8 Practices to Nephrology-Focused Epic EHR System
By Hannah NelsonThe Epic EHR configuration aims to foster collaboration between nephrology practices, hospitals, and dialysis centers for value-based care.
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09 Jan 2024
AI-Driven ECG Analysis Accurately Predicts Right-Side Heart Issues
By Shania KennedyA deep learning-based electrocardiogram model may enhance clinical evaluations of the heart’s right ventricle, providing a potential alternative to complex imaging.
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09 Jan 2024
Care Coordination Model Increases Primary Care Follow-Up Access
By Sara HeathA new study gives further updates to Camden Coalition’s model for care coordination, marking quality improvement.
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08 Jan 2024
Government to push NHS roll-out of digital pathology
By Lis EvenstadDepartment for Health and Social Care wants to increase use of digital pathology in cancer screening, following a recommendation by the UK National Screening Committee
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08 Jan 2024
Uber Health’s Health IT Deal to Ease Transportation, SDOH Referral
By Sara HeathThe integration will make it easier for Uber Health users to identify patients with SDOH and transportation needs and check their benefit eligibility.
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08 Jan 2024
More Patients Visit NPs & PAs as Usual Source of Care, Primary Care
By Sara HeathThe number of patients reporting a usual source of care is overall lower than years previous, but more patients are opting to pick an NP or PA for the job.
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05 Jan 2024
Nine Healthcare Orgs Join OCHIN Epic EHR Network to Drive Care Access
By Hannah NelsonThe OCHIN Epic EHR platform aims to meet the needs of community-based healthcare providers and enhance care access across underserved populations.
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05 Jan 2024
Case Western Reserve University to Develop Enhanced Medical Imaging AI
By Shania KennedyNew four-year, $1.1 million project aims to build an AI alternative to traditional medical imaging processes that rely on chemical “contrast agents.”
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05 Jan 2024
Data Reveals How Health Outcomes Link to Structural Racism
By Sara HeathNeighborhood-level data showed a connection between common chronic illnesses and indicators of structural racism.
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04 Jan 2024
Nurse Practitioners Predict Doc Shortages, Care Access to Loom in 2024
By Sara HeathWorkforce shortages are leading to long appointment wait times and exacerbating increased patient demand, but nurse practitioners could fill in the gaps, AANP said.
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03 Jan 2024
Artificial intelligence to the front in Sweden’s National Technology Strategy
By Gerard O'DwyerSweden focuses in on artificial intelligence in its latest far-reaching national IT strategy
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03 Jan 2024
ONC Final Rule Updates Health IT Certification for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe final rule updates the baseline version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard to Version 3 for the ONC Health IT Certification Program.
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03 Jan 2024
Framework to Address Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare AI Models
By Shania KennedyAn expert panel recently determined that mitigating algorithmic bias requires healthcare stakeholders to promote health equity, transparency, and accountability.
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21 Dec 2023
Epic EHR Implementation Projects Look to Boost Patient Experience
By Hannah NelsonHealthcare organizations in Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska have recently announced Epic EHR implementation projects aimed at improving patient experience.
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics
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21 Dec 2023
Kaiser Permanente Awards Funding for Healthcare AI, ML Research
By Shania KennedyKaiser Permanente’s AIM-HI has awarded funding to five healthcare organizations researching how AI and ML tools can improve diagnostic decision-making.
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21 Dec 2023
Few Providers Use Z-Codes to Document Social Determinants of Health
By Sara HeathUse of Z-codes to document social determinants of health is low, and there are differences in which patients get a Z-code documented, two unrelated studies showed.
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20 Dec 2023
GAO Appoints New Members to Health IT Advisory Committee
By Hannah NelsonGAO added five new health IT leaders to the committee, including Lee Fleisher, MD, former chief medical officer and director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS.
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20 Dec 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat operation down, but maybe not out
By Alex ScroxtonMultinational law enforcement has targeted the operations of the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat cyber extortion gang, but the group’s members appear to remain defiant
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2023
By Lis EvenstadIn the year we said goodbye to NHS Digital, the NHS has made some serious strides in digitising the health service, but many challenges remain. We look back at the stories that made the headlines in 2023
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20 Dec 2023
Which Healthcare Players Yield the Highest Patient Satisfaction?
By Sara HeathGallup polling found that 82 percent of patients think their nurses provide excellent or good medical care, while 69 percent said the same about doctors.
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
By Brian McKennaGenerative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO
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19 Dec 2023
Deep Learning Model Predicts Mortality Following Medical Procedures
By Shania KennedyPatients classified as high risk for postoperative mortality by a new deep learning tool were nearly nine times more likely to die than their low-risk counterparts.
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19 Dec 2023
Patient-Provider Communication Ranks High While Doc Face Time Lags
By Sara HeathDoctors are good at answering patient questions, but the limited amount of in-person time with doctors mars the patient experience.
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18 Dec 2023
Large Language Models May Improve Clinician Diagnostic Performance
By Shania KennedyProbabilistic recommendations from AI chatbots may improve human diagnostic performance through collective intelligence, potentially curbing overtreatment.
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18 Dec 2023
NYC Health Dept. Expands Work to Address Racism in Clinical Algorithms
By Shania KennedyThe Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms, which examines race adjustment in clinical decision support tools, will expand its focus to include hypertension.
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15 Dec 2023
Medication Access for OUD Abysmal for Medicare Enrollees
By Sara HeathWhile the number of Medicare enrollees with medication access for OUD still remains low, OIG reported a promising increase in naloxone access.
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15 Dec 2023
Providers, Payers Sign Pledge for Ethical, Responsible AI in Healthcare
By Shania KennedyOver 25 health systems and payers have made voluntary commitments to ensure that health AI leads to fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe outcomes.
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14 Dec 2023
HHS Data Strategy Looks to Expand Human Services Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonA new HHS data strategy outlines several data integration goals, including expanding ONC's role to include the coordination of human services interoperability.
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14 Dec 2023
AMA Survey Reveals Physicians’ Sentiments on Healthcare AI
By Shania KennedyNew survey data from the American Medical Association shows that a large portion of clinicians are equally concerned and excited about the potential of health AI.
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14 Dec 2023
Patients Leery of GenAI for Medical Misinformation Potential
By Sara HeathPatients know GenAI will be part of the healthcare encounter someday, but they carry concerns that the tools could perpetuate medical misinformation or falsehoods.
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13 Dec 2023
Microsoft’s Christmas present for cyber teams: no zero-days
By Alex ScroxtonBarely 30 vulnerabilities, and no zero-days, have been fixed in the final Patch Tuesday drop of 2023
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13 Dec 2023
Critical UK infrastructure a ‘hostage of fortune’ to ransomware
By Alex ScroxtonA lack of ransomware planning and preparedness at the highest levels of government is leaving UK operators or critical national infrastructure dangerously exposed, according to a Joint Committee report
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13 Dec 2023
ONC Finalizes Rule to Drive Health IT Interoperability, AI Transparency
By Hannah NelsonThe final rule adopts USCDI Version 3 as the new baseline standard within the ONC Health IT Certification Program to advance health IT interoperability.
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13 Dec 2023
Google Launches Generative Artificial Intelligence Models for Healthcare
By Shania KennedyGoogle’s newly introduced MedLM is a suite of foundation models designed for healthcare, with two generative AI tools built on the large language model Med-PaLM 2.
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13 Dec 2023
Zocdoc Sheds Light on User Appointment Scheduling Trends
By Sara HeathZocdoc users tended to prefer in-person care that is close to home, scheduled for earlier in the week, and wouldn’t have a long appointment scheduling wait.
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12 Dec 2023
Regenstrief Foundation Funds Project for EHR Standardization of SDOH Data
By Hannah NelsonA new initiative led by Regenstrief Institute and HL7’s Gravity Project aims to advance SDOH data standards within EHR platforms to drive health equity.
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12 Dec 2023
HHS, ONC Bring TEFCA Live for Nationwide Health Data Exchange
By Hannah NelsonONC designated eHealth Exchange, Epic Nexus, Health Gorilla, KONZA, and MedAllies as the first QHINs to support national health data exchange through TEFCA.
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12 Dec 2023
Predictive Model Accurately Flags Postpancreatectomy Hemorrhage Risk
By Shania KennedyA new risk model can accurately predict late postpancreatectomy hemorrhage in patients with postoperative pancreatic fistula following pancreatoduodenectomy.
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12 Dec 2023
Patients Are Traveling for Abortions. How Does It Affect Care Access?
By Sara HeathWith one in five patients seeking abortion traveling out of state to get it, policymakers examine the longevity of abortion funds and the surge states absorbing these patients.
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11 Dec 2023
Deep Learning Accurately Predicts Antihypertensive Treatment Success
By Shania KennedyA deep learning model can predict the likelihood of antihypertensive treatment success for individuals, which could help personalize hypertension management.
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07 Dec 2023
CVS Health’s Consumer App Targets Disease Management, Patient Engagement
By Sara HeathThe consumer app will give users a look into their prescriptions, view patient engagement tips, and schedule appointments with CVS Health providers.
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07 Dec 2023
ONC Launches New USCDI+ Platform to Drive Data Harmonization
By Hannah NelsonAccording to ONC officials, the platform provides an enhanced user experience compared to previous USCDI+ data collection and review tools.
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07 Dec 2023
Veteran's Lawsuit Alleges VA EHR Defects Delayed Cancer Diagnosis
By Hannah NelsonA veteran is seeking unspecified monetary damages from the federal government and the vendors behind the VA EHR system due to alleged system flaws.
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07 Dec 2023
Health Equity Key 2024 Priority, But Challenges Lie Ahead
By Sara HeathStaffing and the insurgence of artificial intelligence could imperil healthcare and life science work on health equity in 2024.
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07 Dec 2023
Predictive Models Flag Need for Nursing Home Care in Dementia Patients
By Shania KennedyNew models to predict need for nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia may help enhance care management.