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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 Dec 2023
New Tools From EHR Vendor athenahealth Harness Generative AI
By Hannah NelsonNew generative AI tools from EHR vendor athenahealth include a care plan summarization feature, as well as a tool to draft patient case documents.
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06 Dec 2023
AI-Aided Colonoscopy May Improve Colorectal Neoplasia Detection
By Shania KennedyArtificial intelligence may enhance colorectal neoplasia detection, but more research is needed to evaluate the long-term benefits of AI-aided colonoscopy.
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06 Dec 2023
Discrimination in Healthcare Affects Patient Experience, Outcomes
By Sara HeathMore data from KFF showed that discrimination in healthcare is common and that it affects healthcare access and clinical outcomes.
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06 Dec 2023
ONC-Funded Project Taps FHIR for Clinical Research EHR Data Access
By Hannah NelsonAn ONC-funded research team has developed two new platforms that leverage FHIR to support standardized EHR data access for clinical research scalability.
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06 Dec 2023
Large Language Model May Help Better Identify Postpartum Hemorrhage
By Shania KennedyThe large language model Flan-T5 was 95 percent accurate in identifying patients with postpartum hemorrhage, which may help predict those most likely to develop it.
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05 Dec 2023
Epic EHR Integration Aims to Boost Patient Experience, Personalized Care
By Hannah NelsonBy providing access to patient experience data within health records, the Epic EHR integration aims to drive a more personal care experience.
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05 Dec 2023
Majority of GPs now give patients online access to records
By Lis EvenstadNHS England is close to reaching its target of having nine in 10 GPs offering patients access to their primary care records online
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05 Dec 2023
Deep Learning Model Flags Non-Smokers at Increased Risk for Lung Cancer
By Shania KennedyA new model has shown that among non-smokers, there is a 2.1 times greater risk of developing lung cancer for those in high-risk groups compared to their peers.
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04 Dec 2023
Rhysida ransomware gang hits hospital holding royal family’s data
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gang boasts of having stolen data on the royal family in an attack on a private London hospital
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04 Dec 2023
AI-Based Voice Assistants Poised to Support Chronic Disease Management
By Sara HeathNew data showed that conversational AI and voice assistants helped patient engagement in chronic disease management.
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01 Dec 2023
The Security Interviews: Mark McClain, SailPoint Technologies
By Alex ScroxtonSailPoint founder and CEO Mark McClain reflects on how the concept of identity has evolved over the past 20 years, and points to rapid evolution still to come
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01 Dec 2023
How Workflow Factors Sway Social Determinants of Health Screening Rates
By Sara HeathResearchers found links between provider type, survey length, payer type, and social determinants of health screening rates.
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01 Dec 2023
New Healthcare AI Framework Incorporates Medical Knowledge, Values
By Shania KennedyA newly published artificial intelligence framework advocates for a “sociotechnical” approach to advance the technology’s integration into healthcare.
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30 Nov 2023
Health System Selects MEDITECH EHR Implementation for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonA health system in Savannah, Georgia, has opted for a MEDITECH EHR implementation to drive health data interoperability across care settings.
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30 Nov 2023
Patients Say Costs, Access Drive Maternal Health Crisis in GA
By Sara HeathA survey of Georgia residents showed that the maternal health crisis is a salient issue for folks who cite high costs and poor care access.
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30 Nov 2023
AI Tool May Help Breast Cancer Patients Avoid Unnecessary Chemotherapy
By Shania KennedyA Northwestern University artificial intelligence tool can combine cancerous and non-cancerous cell patterns to predict the course of invasive breast cancer.
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29 Nov 2023
AMA Establishes New Principles for AI Development, Deployment and Use
By Shania KennedyThe American Medical Association has issued seven principles to support the development of equitable and responsible healthcare AI.
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28 Nov 2023
Black Women Bear the Brunt of Racism’s Effect on Hypertension Risk
By Sara HeathRacism increases hypertension risk, data shows, a phenomenon more keenly felt by Black women with higher educational attainment.
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28 Nov 2023
AI Tool Uses Epigenetic Factors to Predict Cancer Survival Outcomes
By Shania KennedyBy assessing gene expression patterns of epigenetic factors, an artificial intelligence model can predict patient outcomes across multiple cancer types.
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28 Nov 2023
Flagging Disparities Helps Locate Best Places for Cancer Screening Sites
By Sara HeathAfter identifying both geographic and racial health disparities in breast cancer screening, researchers used USPSTF guidelines to locate new places for care sites.
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27 Nov 2023
NIH Funding to Advance “All of Us” Research Program Dataset Use
By Shania Kennedy$9.7 million in awards will fund 26 projects supporting high-priority analyses and tool development using data from the NIH’s "All of Us" Research Program.
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27 Nov 2023
India's Hexaware creates hundreds of jobs in UK
By Karl FlindersHexaware opens IT services operation in Birmingham, with a plan to recruit 250 people in the region by 2025
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27 Nov 2023
Community Health Center PCPs Spend Less Time on EHR, Electronic Inbox
By Hannah NelsonA study revealed that primary care physicians (PCPs) practicing in community health centers spend 5.40 fewer minutes on the EHR than PCPs working in other settings.
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23 Nov 2023
Microsoft bans SME partners from selling its services via government's Cloud Compute 2 framework
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft is under fire after documents leaked to Computer Weekly revealed it has banned reseller partners from selling its services via the government’s soon-to-be launched Cloud Compute 2 framework
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22 Nov 2023
Palantir awarded NHS FDP data contract
By Alex ScroxtonNHS England has awarded a £330m, seven-year contract to US data specialist Palantir, prompting concerns from data privacy practitioners
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22 Nov 2023
NHS England renews FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration hosting deal via G-Cloud for £1.67m
By Caroline DonnellyNHS England has renewed its long-standing hosting and support contract for the FutureNHS platform with SME cloud provider Kahootz
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22 Nov 2023
Patient-Reported Symptom Data May Hinder Telehealth-Based Flu Diagnosis
By Shania KennedyThe accuracy of existing clinical decision rules for flu in a telehealth setting can be negatively impacted by using only patient-reported symptom data.
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22 Nov 2023
How Do Income & SDOH Affect Cardiovascular Healthcare?
By Sara HeathHaving low income increased the odds of hypertension and reduced the odds of physician engagement during hospitalization for heart failure, two studies show.
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21 Nov 2023
EHR Usability Outshines AI as Top Health IT Priority of Healthcare Execs
By Hannah NelsonAn MGMA poll found that improving EHR usability was the top health IT priority for healthcare leaders, followed by patient communications, revenue cycle management, and AI.
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21 Nov 2023
Can Gen AI Improve Access to Care, Affordability? Patients Think So
By Sara HeathPatients are increasingly using generative AI to explore access to care options, which industry leaders indicate could improve healthcare affordability.
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21 Nov 2023
Machine Learning Methods May Improve Brain Tumor Characterization
By Shania KennedyResearchers combining mass spectrometry with machine learning to assess meningioma tumors found that the tools were 87% accurate in classifying tumor grade.
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20 Nov 2023
NHS England hits 90% target for electronic patient records
By Scarlet CharlesSome 90% of trusts in NHS England have adopted electronic patient records in hospitals, ahead of government schedule
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20 Nov 2023
$31M Awards to Support Medical AI Innovation at UTHealth Houston
By Shania KennedyMcWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics faculty received 16 grants to fund projects focused on advancing artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine.
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20 Nov 2023
Healthcare Affordability Woes Affect High- and Low-Income Patients Alike
By Sara HeathFor some metrics, healthcare affordability is more challenging for high-income Americans than low-income folks in similarly developed nations.
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17 Nov 2023
VA Reports Improved Oracle Health EHR Performance, But Snags Remain
By Hannah NelsonWhile there has not been a total outage of the VA Oracle Health EHR for six months, frontline healthcare workers continue to experience pauses in the system.
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17 Nov 2023
eHealth Exchange HIE Launches Program to Boost HL7 FHIR Adoption
By Hannah NelsonThe incentive program from eHealth Exchange will reward HIE participants who exchange patient data with payers using the HL7 FHIR data standard as outlined in the HL7 Da Vinci Project.
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17 Nov 2023
Consumers Believe Generative AI May Make Healthcare More Affordable
By Shania KennedyDeloitte’s 2023 Health Care Consumer Survey shows that over 70 percent of consumers who use generative AI believe the tech could revolutionize healthcare delivery.
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17 Nov 2023
Health Orgs Look for Consolidated Patient Engagement Tech Footprint
By Sara HeathPatient engagement technology vendors will need to respond to a growing push for consumer-centered solutions for healthcare organizations.
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16 Nov 2023
HHS Unveils Updated Language Access Plan for Health Equity
By Sara HeathThe Updated Language Access Plan builds on previous legal provisions prohibiting discrimination and requiring adequate language supports for patients.
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16 Nov 2023
Community Hospitals Select Oracle Health EHR to Streamline Workflows
By Hannah NelsonCommunity hospitals in Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee have implemented the Oracle Health CommunityWorks EHR to optimize clinical workflows and drive interoperability.
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16 Nov 2023
Digital Health Most Wired: Healthcare Orgs Focusing on Health Data Usage
By Hannah NelsonWith widespread EHR adoption, healthcare organizations are looking toward health data usage to improve outcomes, according to the Digital Health Most Wired 2023 survey.
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16 Nov 2023
MD Anderson Cancer Center Launches Institute for Data Science in Oncology
By Shania KennedyThe new MD Anderson Institute for Data Science in Oncology is set to combine advanced computational approaches with clinical expertise to transform cancer care.
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14 Nov 2023
Racism Key Social Determinant of Health Linked to 38% Risk of Stroke
By Sara HeathThe chronic stress incurred due to experiences of racism led to poorer health outcomes, including increased risk of stroke.
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14 Nov 2023
Large Language Model Diagnoses, Triages Without Introducing Biases
By Shania KennedyUCLA Health researchers determined that Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 can accurately diagnose and triage patients without introducing racial and ethnic biases.
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14 Nov 2023
How to Achieve Patient Portal ‘Techquity’ & Digital Health Equity
By Sara HeathMeasuring patient portal use by demographic will be the first step toward achieving digital health equity.
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13 Nov 2023
Rogue state-aligned actors are most critical cyber threat to UK
By Alex ScroxtonThe prospect of rogue nation-state-aligned attackers bringing down the UK’s critical infrastructure is keeping the NCSC up at night
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13 Nov 2023
Surescripts Applies for TEFCA QHIN Role to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonSurescripts Health Information Network LLC, which supports nationwide healthcare interoperability for ePrescribing, has applied to become a TEFCA QHIN.
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13 Nov 2023
Vanderbilt, Duke Awarded $1.25M to Improve Health Systems’ AI Oversight
By Shania KennedyA new project is set to outline the essential capabilities that health systems need to effectively select, deploy, and monitor artificial intelligence tools.
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13 Nov 2023
Indian Health Service Taps Oracle Health EHR Implementation for HIE
By Hannah NelsonThe enterprise platform from EHR vendor Oracle Health is set to drive care coordination and patient safety through enhanced health information exchange (HIE).
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13 Nov 2023
Emory University Establishes Empathetic AI for Health Institute
By Shania KennedyThe Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute aims to support the development of equitable, accessible, and cost-effective artificial intelligence tools.
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09 Nov 2023
KY Hospital Receives Epic Award for EHR Implementation Success
By Hannah NelsonEHR vendor Epic gives its annual Good Install award to one new customer who stands out above others in terms of EHR implementation success.
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09 Nov 2023
Adopting Patient-Centered Care Stymied by Limited Patient-Centered Metrics
By Sara HeathOnly around half of hospitals and health systems are looking at patient-centered metrics, which is getting in the way of broad adoption of patient-centered care models.
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08 Nov 2023
Need Outpaces Maternal Mental Healthcare Access in 150 Counties
By Sara Heath70% of US counties have poor maternal mental healthcare access, even though nearly 700 are considered high risk for maternal mental health disorders.
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08 Nov 2023
Department of Mental Health Taps Oracle Health EHR for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe Oracle Health EHR implementation aims to enhance interoperability across the Missouri Department of Mental Health’s facilities and contracted agencies.
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08 Nov 2023
KLAS: Dimensional Insight, Epic Drive Health Data Analytics Outcomes
By Shania KennedyHealthcare organizations reported that Dimensional Insight, Epic, and Innovaccer offer the strongest analytics capabilities to track and benchmark desired outcomes.
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08 Nov 2023
HHS Honors Community Health Centers for Clinical Quality Improvement
By Sara HeathThe awards go to the top 10 percent of community health centers demonstrating achievements in clinical quality.
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07 Nov 2023
Cornwall Council-run care service to deploy digital care hub
By Lis EvenstadDigital hub will offer council-run Corserv Care an end-to-end care solution, including a physical device, online dashboard and interoperable software
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07 Nov 2023
Generative AI May Facilitate Improved Chest X-Ray Interpretation
By Shania KennedyNorthwestern Medicine researchers have developed a generative AI model that can outperform radiologists at interpreting chest X-rays in some cases.
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07 Nov 2023
ACO Enrollment Doesn’t Help Mental Healthcare Access, PROs
By Sara HeathMental healthcare access and treatment was down by 24% and no change was detected for PROs after ACO enrollment.
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06 Nov 2023
AI Tools May Detect Heart Valve Disease, Predict Cardiovascular Risk
By Shania KennedyTwo studies to be presented at the AHA’s Scientific Sessions show that AI and deep learning may be capable of flagging heart disease and cardiovascular event risk.
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06 Nov 2023
Netherlands starts building its own AI language model
By Kim LoohuisDutch government allocates €13.5m to develop an open artificial intelligence language model according to national values and guidelines.
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06 Nov 2023
As Patient Safety Improves, Patient Experience Scores Go Down
By Sara HeathThe Leapfrog Group fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades reflect a post-pandemic improvement in patient safety measures, particularly healthcare-acquired infections.
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06 Nov 2023
Risk-Based Lung Cancer Screening May Reduce Racial, Ethnic Disparities
By Shania KennedyA new study validated and recalibrated the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial 2012 risk prediction model across races and ethnicities.
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06 Nov 2023
Racial Health Disparities in Low-Value Care Call Attention to Bias
By Sara HeathBias, plus disparities in patient care access, could be driving racial health disparities in low-value care receipt.
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03 Nov 2023
KLAS: Epic Signal Data Cannot Predict EHR Satisfaction, Clinician Burnout
By Hannah NelsonThe provider-efficiency tracking feature from Epic does not meaningfully measure EHR satisfaction, but it can serve as a jumping-off point for EHR optimization, according to KLAS.
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03 Nov 2023
ML Model Estimates Chemotherapy Success in Bone Cancer Patients
By Shania KennedyJohns Hopkins Medicine researchers have successfully developed a machine learning model to calculate percent necrosis in patients with intramedullary osteosarcoma.
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03 Nov 2023
Walmart Health Dips Its Toes Into Care Coordination, Patient Engagement
By Sara HeathA Walmart Health deal with Orlando Health will let the two providers streamline care coordination across both health systems.
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02 Nov 2023
$2.3M NIH Award to Support AI-Driven Brain Imaging Research
By Shania KennedyIndiana University has received a $2.3 million award from the NIH BRAIN Initiative to advance the development of open-source AI tools for brain imaging research.
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01 Nov 2023
Achieving Clinical AI Fairness Requires Multidisciplinary Collaboration
By Shania KennedyA recently published perspective argues that developing equitable and unbiased AI in healthcare will require clinicians and industry experts to collaborate.
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01 Nov 2023
Public Health Communication Still Needed for 988 Mental Health Line
By Sara HeathPublic health communication, plus a better look at how the 988 mental health line misses patient needs, will be key to increasing access.
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01 Nov 2023
Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals
By Alex ScroxtonAs the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park takes place, Computer Weekly caught up with Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson to find out what one of the UK’s most prominent AI advocates wants from proceedings
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31 Oct 2023
Digital Patient Experience, Engagement Split by Patient Demographics
By Sara HeathWomen, younger patients, and White and Asian patients are more likely to engage in an online patient experience than other demographics.
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31 Oct 2023
Surgery Center Selects eClinicalWorks EHR to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe implementation of the eClinicalWorks EHR is set to advance interoperability with ambulatory surgery centers and other providers to boost care coordination.
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31 Oct 2023
Publicly Trained LLMs Identify Musculoskeletal Pain Location, Acuity
By Shania KennedyPublicly trained large language models can accurately flag both the pain location and acuity of musculoskeletal disorders, like lower back, knee, and shoulder pain.
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31 Oct 2023
Better Patient Experience Needed for Trust in SDOH Data Sharing
By Sara HeathPatient experience factors, like care quality and healthcare discrimination, make it harder for patients to trust SDOH data sharing, ONC said.
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30 Oct 2023
Biden Issues Executive Order to Ensure Safe, Secure AI Development
By Shania KennedyPresident Biden has signed an executive order aimed at balancing the risks and promises of artificial intelligence across US industries, including healthcare.
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30 Oct 2023
HHS Releases Proposed Rule for Information Blocking Disincentives
By Hannah NelsonHHS requests public comment by January 2, 2024 on a proposed rule that would establish information blocking disincentives for healthcare providers.
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30 Oct 2023
American College of Surgeons Develops Cancer Survival Prediction Tool
By Shania KennedyA new machine learning tool accurately estimated long-term survival rates for patients newly diagnosed with thyroid, pancreatic, and breast cancer.
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27 Oct 2023
Domestic abuse charities surface fresh worries over NHS data sharing
By Alex ScroxtonWith new NHS data access options coming into effect at the end of October, a group of campaigners including womens' charities and the BMA have warned that the revived GP-patient data sharing scheme risks putting vulnerable people at risk
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27 Oct 2023
NLP Tool Flags Signs of Depression, Anxiety in Healthcare Workers
By Shania KennedyNYU Langone researchers found that a natural language processing tool could identify pandemic-related markers of psychological distress in healthcare workers.
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27 Oct 2023
Over Half of Health Experts Lack Confidence in Health Equity Work
By Sara HeathJust under 60 percent of industry stakeholders said it could take a decade before the US sees significant improvement in its health equity work.
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26 Oct 2023
ONC: 60% of Americans Comfortable with SDOH Information Sharing
By Hannah NelsonComfort with SDOH information sharing was relatively low among individuals who reported little or no trust in the healthcare system, ONC survey data revealed.
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26 Oct 2023
High Healthcare Costs Bar Care Access Despite Insurance Status
By Sara HeathHigh healthcare costs were most likely to affect the uninsured, but a new report showed that it also has a sizeable impact on those with different insurance types.
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26 Oct 2023
NYC Health Dept. Launches Center for Population Health Data Science
By Shania KennedyThe new center aims to bolster New York City’s population health surveillance and improve outcomes by linking healthcare, public health, and social service data.
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26 Oct 2023
Abortion Access Shifts as States Without Bans Absorb Patient Needs
By Sara HeathAbortion access in restriction states plummeted by 114,590 in the first year after the Dobbs decision, while it increased in non-restriction states by nearly 117,000 procedures.
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25 Oct 2023
CalHHS Names 9 Qualified Health Information Organizations for DxF
By Hannah NelsonThe designation of qualified health information organizations is a major step forward in implementing the CalHHS health data exchange framework (DxF).
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25 Oct 2023
HHS Slates $3.7B for Utility Bills, Social Determinants of Health
By Sara HeathUtility bill affordability is getting more recognition as a social determinant of health as leading entities like HHS create programming to address it.
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25 Oct 2023
CalHHS Names 9 Qualified Health Information Organizations for DxF
By Hannah NelsonThe designation of qualified health information organizations is a major step forward in implementing the CalHHS health data exchange framework (DxF).
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25 Oct 2023
Cedars-Sinai Deep Learning Tool Accurately Predicts Atrial Fibrillation
By Shania KennedyNew AI model uses routinely acquired outpatient 12-lead electrocardiograms to help clinicians identify abnormal heart rhythms in patients not yet showing symptoms.
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25 Oct 2023
Instacart Health Partnership Focuses on Food Insecurity in Chicago
By Sara HeathChicago’s Wellness West will use Instacart Fresh Funds to help people facing food insecurity access nutritious food through grocery stipends.
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24 Oct 2023
Homelessness Key Social Determinant of Health Predicting Sudden Death
By Sara HeathSudden death was usually tied to noncardiac issues, like drug use or GI issues, for individuals experiencing the social determinant of health, homelessness.
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24 Oct 2023
Government puts £75m into innovation hubs
By Lis EvenstadEight innovation ‘launchpads’ will each get a share of the funding for projects covering sectors such as agri-tech, digital healthcare, renewable energy and technologies for the creative industry
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24 Oct 2023
AI Tool Predicts Blood Clot Risk in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients
By Shania KennedyVanderbilt researchers have found that clinicians were reluctant to follow the treatment recommendations of a blood clot risk prediction model despite its accuracy.
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24 Oct 2023
Healthgrades: US Could Dodge Mortality If Hospital Quality Were Top-Notch
By Sara HeathAs part of its specialty hospital rankings, Healthgrades said mortality and complication rates would go down if all hospital quality were equal to that of five-star hospitals.
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23 Oct 2023
Mount Sinai Develops AI Algorithm to Estimate Brain Age Acceleration
By Shania KennedyThe “HistoAge” model can flag areas of the brain vulnerable to age-related changes and predict age at death within 5.45 years by assessing histological images.
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23 Oct 2023
Pediatric Sepsis Mortality Risk Marred by Racial Health Disparities
By Sara HeathData from a single hospital in Arkansas showed racial health disparities such that Black kids are twice as likely to die from sepsis as their White counterparts.
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23 Oct 2023
KLAS: Clinician Satisfaction with eLearning EHR Training Mounts
By Hannah NelsonFrom 2021 to 2023, the share of clinicians who would recommend eLearning EHR training to a colleague increased from 67 to 83 percent, according to a KLAS report.
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23 Oct 2023
Washington University in St. Louis Launches AI for Health Institute
By Shania KennedyThe AI for Health Institute is set to develop data-driven tools to advance precision medicine, characterize complex diseases, and support clinical decision-making.
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23 Oct 2023
Patient Data Access, Mobile Patient Portals Reach Unprecedented Use
By Sara HeathThe surge in patient data access could be driven by the proliferation of app-based patient portals and rules under the 21st Century Cures Act.
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20 Oct 2023
EHR Vendor eClinicalWorks Taps AI Tool for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonA new health IT integration from EHR vendor eClinicalWorks is set to simplify clinical documentation for providers using AI technology.