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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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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.
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20 Oct 2023
Florida FQHC Streamlines Collections Using eClinicalWorks EHR Services
By Hannah NelsonA federally qualified health center (FQHC) has increased payment collections through revenue cycle management tools connected to its eClinicalWorks EHR platform.
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20 Oct 2023
KLAS Outlines Health IT Vendor Offerings for Clinician EHR Efficiency
By Hannah NelsonThe KLAS report validates offerings that aim to improve clinician EHR efficiency from health IT vendors such as athenahealth, Epic, MEDITECH, and NextGen Healthcare.
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20 Oct 2023
Locally Run Large Language Models May Help Preserve Patient Privacy
By Shania KennedyResearchers have demonstrated that a locally run large language model may be useful for extracting data from text-based radiology reports while safeguarding privacy.
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19 Oct 2023
Government concedes it will miss 2024 e-prescribing target
By Lis EvenstadThe government won’t meet its target to get rid of paper prescribing in hospitals by 2024, and has pushed the goal post back two years to 2026
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19 Oct 2023
Patients Split on Trust in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Experience
By Sara HeathAmerican patients are torn about whether they are comfortable with the use of artificial intelligence in the healthcare setting, survey data shows.
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19 Oct 2023
Boston Medical Center First in Nation to Offer Renewable Utilities Prescription
By Sara HeathThe renewable utilities prescription is a part of BMC’s commitment to addressing social determinants of health that impact its low-income population.
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18 Oct 2023
Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate Announces Fourth Health Tech Cohort
By Shania KennedyNine health tech startups will join Mayo Clinic Platform’s 20-week accelerator program to refine and validate their artificial intelligence offerings.
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18 Oct 2023
AI Pain Recognition Tool Detects Pain Before, During and After Surgery
By Shania KennedyAn automated, AI-based pain recognition system may provide an unbiased approach to assess patients’ pain and decrease hospital length of stay.
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17 Oct 2023
Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs Double with Dementia Diagnosis
By Sara HeathOut-of-pocket healthcare costs went from around $4,000 to an average of $8,000 within eight years following a dementia diagnosis.
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17 Oct 2023
Health Literacy Stands in the Way of Adequate Breast Cancer Screening
By Sara HeathUS adults are unsure of recommended breast cancer screening recommendations, highlighting a health literacy hurdle to care access.
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17 Oct 2023
NIH Award to Establish Data Integration Hub for Common Fund Programs
By Shania KennedyAn $8.5 million grant will support the creation of a data integration hub designed to advance National Institutes of Health Common Fund initiatives.
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17 Oct 2023
Government to pump £30m into NHS medtech
By Lis EvenstadThe government hopes the funding, which is available to integrated care systems across the country, will ease winter pressures through the help of technology
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16 Oct 2023
ENT Practice Increases Patient Engagement with eClinicalWorks EHR
By Hannah NelsonAn Arizona-based ENT practice has boosted patient engagement through questionnaires and various payment options within its eClinicalWorks EHR system.
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16 Oct 2023
Regenstrief Links LOINC, SNOMED to Drive Health Data Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonRegenstrief and SNOMED International have broadened their collaboration to drive health data interoperability between LOINC and SNOMED CT data standards.
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16 Oct 2023
“All of Us” Program Launches Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data
By Shania KennedyThe University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus will use a $30 million award to establish the “All of Us” program’s Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data.
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13 Oct 2023
CHIME Names 21 Healthcare Orgs as 2023 Digital Health Most Wired
By Hannah NelsonThe 2023 Digital Health Most Wired Survey awarded 21 healthcare organizations with the highest recognition for their commitment to digital health transformation.
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13 Oct 2023
Racial Health Disparities Plague Mental Healthcare Access for Teens
By Sara HeathMental healthcare access is elusive for many teens who need it, especially racial and ethnic minorities, a new study showed.
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13 Oct 2023
Artificial Intelligence Model May Help Predict Future Viral Outbreaks
By Shania KennedyNew AI tool predicts how viruses may evolve to escape the immune system, which could shed light on which viral variants have pandemic potential before they emerge.
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13 Oct 2023
CHIME Names 21 Healthcare Orgs as 2023 Digital Health Most Wired
By Hannah NelsonThe 2023 Digital Health Most Wired Survey awarded 21 healthcare organizations with the highest recognition for their commitment to digital health transformation.
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12 Oct 2023
A Third of Folks with Disabilities Face Healthcare Discrimination
By Sara HeathAround half of the people with disabilities who reported healthcare discrimination said it led them to either delay or forgo healthcare access.
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12 Oct 2023
Predictive Models May Negatively Impact the Performance of Future Tools
By Shania KennedyThe impact of predictive modeling on patient outcomes may negatively affect the predictive performance of subsequent artificial intelligence tools.
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11 Oct 2023
Google Cloud Announces Generative AI Search Capabilities for Healthcare
By Hannah NelsonNew generative AI search features from Google Cloud aim to help drive efficiencies across the healthcare industry and improve clinical decision support.
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11 Oct 2023
Google Cloud Announces Generative AI Search Capabilities for Healthcare
By Hannah NelsonNew generative AI search features from Google Cloud aim to help drive efficiencies across the healthcare industry and improve clinical decision support.
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11 Oct 2023
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust uses RealWear headsets for training
By Cliff SaranNHS trauma and orthopaedic department deploys head-mounted cameras to livestream surgeon’s view footage of operations to classroom
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11 Oct 2023
Patients Want Doc Counsel Under Cures Act Patient Data Access Rules
By Sara HeathPatient anxiety levels go down when patients meet with providers under the 21st Century Cures Act patient data access rules.
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11 Oct 2023
AHIMA Launches Social Determinants of Health Data Initiative
By Shania KennedyAHIMA announced that its new Data for Better Health initiative aims to transform healthcare and improve patient outcomes through the use of SDOH data.
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10 Oct 2023
Generative Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Launched at HLTH 2023
By Shania KennedyA collective of providers, payers, and other stakeholders have launched VALID AI to explore use cases and best practices for generative AI in healthcare.
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10 Oct 2023
Digital Patient Experience Hinges on Online Appointment Scheduling
By Sara Heath80% of consumers said they’d use online appointment scheduling tools if available, underscoring the tech as the key part of the digital patient experience.
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10 Oct 2023
EHR Vendor NextGen Releases AI Solution to Boost Provider Efficiency
By Hannah NelsonThe new AI solution within EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare’s mobile application aims to enhance provider efficiency by summarizing clinical encounters.
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06 Oct 2023
VA Announces Health Data Sharing Pledge to Boost Veteran Experience
By Hannah NelsonVA and 13 healthcare systems, including Kaiser Permanente and Intermountain, have pledged to improve the Veteran experience through health data sharing.
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06 Oct 2023
Health Equity Accreditation Aims to Provide Actionable Roadmap
By Sara HeathURAC said the health equity accreditation will help organizations that have a commitment to health equity and guide their actions forward.
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05 Oct 2023
University Hospitals Transitions to Epic EHR to Drive Care Coordination
By Hannah NelsonThe health system converted over 5.6 million patient records to an Epic EHR system to enhance care coordination and streamline patient scheduling.
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05 Oct 2023
University Hospitals Transitions to Epic EHR to Drive Care Coordination
By Hannah NelsonThe health system converted over 5.6 million patient records to an Epic EHR system to enhance care coordination and streamline patient scheduling.
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05 Oct 2023
NY Orthopaedic Practice Taps athenahealth EHR for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonAn orthopaedic practice based in Albany, NY, selected a cloud-based EHR from athenahealth to enhance health data interoperability.
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05 Oct 2023
Government launches £60m Regional Innovation Fund
By Lis EvenstadThe £60m fund aims to support universities in areas with lower R&D investment, while the government is also pumping £8m towards AI scholarships
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05 Oct 2023
Risk Stratification May Reduce Unnecessary Pediatric Oophorectomies
By Shania KennedyFollowing the deployment of a risk stratification algorithm, oophorectomies performed for benign disease in pediatric patients decreased from 16.1% to 8.4%.
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04 Oct 2023
Did the 21st Century Cures Act Patient Data Access Rules Hurt Experience?
By Sara HeathOne academic medical center saw more patient complaints after the 21st Century Cures Act patient data access rules changed how patients see lab results.
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03 Oct 2023
Racial Health Disparities Emerge in Access to OUD Medications
By Sara HeathThe biggest health disparity in MOUD access was age-based, with those younger than 18 being significantly less likely to access medication than adults.
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03 Oct 2023
What Does the Health Equity Officer Job Role Look Like?
By Sara HeathA Health Affairs paper showed that health equity officers have hospital support, but there’s a long road ahead of dismantling centuries of racism.
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03 Oct 2023
Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group
By Computer Weekly and Byline TimesA conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly
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29 Sep 2023
VT Health System Streamlines Health IT Strategy with MEDITECH EHR
By Hannah NelsonGifford Health Care is replacing three legacy health IT systems with a MEDITECH EHR to enhance operational efficiency and clinical decision support.
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29 Sep 2023
COVID Boosters See More Vaccine Hesitancy Than Flu & RSV Shots
By Sara HeathStill, vaccine hesitancy is uncommon among adults who are most at risk for serious illness from COVID, flu, or RSV this season, KFF data showed.
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29 Sep 2023
$2.8M NIH Grant to Support Development of Kidney Transplant AI
By Shania KennedyUniversity of Florida Health researchers will use the funding to evaluate how artificial intelligence may help clinicians better predict kidney transplant outcomes.
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28 Sep 2023
NIH Designates People with Disabilities as Facing Health Disparities
By Sara HeathBy designating people with disabilities as facing health disparities, NIH is making it easier to research the drivers of health inequities.
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28 Sep 2023
AI Tool May Improve Tumor Removal Accuracy During Breast Cancer Surgery
By Shania KennedyNew AI model designed to predict whether breast cancer tissue has been fully removed from the body during surgery may reduce the need for additional operations.
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27 Sep 2023
Nuance Releases Generative AI Copilot for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe Nuance DAX Copilot uses generative AI to automatically create draft clinical documentation for physician review and entry in the EHR.
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27 Sep 2023
Nuance Releases Generative AI Copilot for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe Nuance DAX Copilot uses generative AI to automatically create draft clinical documentation for physician review and entry in the EHR.
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27 Sep 2023
University of Texas Awarded Funding for Disease Relapse Prediction AI
By Shania KennedyA team at the University of Texas at Arlington will use a $450,000 grant to develop a predictive analytics tool to forecast which patients’ diseases will recur.
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26 Sep 2023
EDs Use Restraints on Black Patients More than White, But Data Is Scant
By Sara HeathResearchers said more study is necessary to fully understand the racial disparity in ED restraint use and the reasons behind the differences.
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26 Sep 2023
Consumers Feel the Pinch of Medical Debt, Skip Healthcare Access
By Sara HeathAbout a third of patients skipped healthcare access this year because of medical debt, up from 28 percent of patients who did the same in 2022.
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26 Sep 2023
AI Achieves High Diagnostic Accuracy in Virtual Primary Care Setting
By Shania KennedyProviders selected an AI-recommended diagnosis in 84% of virtual primary care cases, demonstrating significant potential to improve patient triage over time.
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25 Sep 2023
Emotional Well-Being Screening Needed for Family Caregivers
By Sara HeathDespite the outsized burden they carry, family caregivers only get screenings for emotional well-being around 16 percent of the time.
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22 Sep 2023
HHS & Partner Agencies Target COVID Tests, Long COVID Treatment
By Sara HeathWith $600 million going to COVID tests access and another $45 million going to long COVID treatment, HHS is acknowledging the uptick in case counts in recent weeks.
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22 Sep 2023
ML Predicts Suicidal Ideation Among Sexual, Gender Minority Individuals
By Shania KennedyA machine learning model using ecological momentary assessment data could forecast 1-, 3-, and 8-month suicidal ideation in sexual and gender minority individuals.
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21 Sep 2023
MEDITECH EHR Integration Taps Generative AI for Clinical Notes
By Hannah NelsonThe MEDITECH EHR integration leverages ambient technology and generative AI to help providers spend less time on clinical documentation.
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21 Sep 2023
CDC Awards to Establish National Infectious Disease Forecasting Network
By Shania KennedyThe CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics has awarded over $260 million to 13 infectious disease forecasting and analytics centers.
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20 Sep 2023
New Oracle Health Cloud-Based EHR Features Focus on Patient Experience
By Hannah NelsonNew cloud-based capabilities in the Oracle Health EHR include a patient portal that supports simple voice commands to improve the patient experience.
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20 Sep 2023
Culturally Competent Care Elusive for 3 in 10 Immigrant Patients
By Sara HeathAnother 25 percent said they’ve experienced discrimination in healthcare, potentially a side effect of limited culturally competent and language-concordant care.
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19 Sep 2023
Ochsner to Pilot Epic EHR Integration for Generative AI Patient Messaging
By Hannah NelsonApproximately 100 Ochsner clinicians will test an Epic EHR integration that uses generative AI to draft responses to routine patient requests.
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19 Sep 2023
Government pumps £10m into faster patient access to medtech
By Lis EvenstadThe funding aims to give developers support to rapidly develop innovative technologies that can address unmet clinical needs
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19 Sep 2023
ML Helps Identify Variations in Individualized Normal Temperature Ranges
By Shania KennedyA machine learning model determined that age, sex, height, weight, and time of day are factors that contribute to variations in oral temperature measurements.
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19 Sep 2023
Zocdoc Enters Practice Management, Patient Access Tech Space
By Sara HeathThe practice management suite will offer patient intake, appointment scheduling, and video components to support the patient access process, Zocdoc said.
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19 Sep 2023
Breast Cancer Detection AI Performs On Par with Human Mammogram Readers
By Shania KennedyA breast cancer screening AI demonstrated similar sensitivity and specificity to those achieved by 552 human readers of screening mammograms.
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18 Sep 2023
Few Hospitals Excel in Racial Inclusivity, Health Equity Work
By Sara HeathOnly 3 percent of hospitals rank among the best in racial inclusivity, which can be a hallmark of concerted health equity work.
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18 Sep 2023
UPMC Moves to Single Epic EHR to Boost Health Data Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe unified Epic EHR platform is set to enhance health data interoperability across the UPMC enterprise for improved access to patient data.
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18 Sep 2023
Government seeks industry views on cyber threat to UK CNI
By Alex ScroxtonThe Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee is seeking evidence from the cyber sector as it launches an inquiry into the resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure
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18 Sep 2023
Machine Learning Model May Help Optimize Therapeutic Antibodies
By Shania KennedyResearchers have created a machine learning tool to help ensure that therapeutic antibodies bind target antigens, repel each other, and ignore non-antigen molecules.
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15 Sep 2023
Appointment Scheduling Fixes Needed for LEP Patient Access
By Sara HeathNearly a fifth of Spanish-speaking LEP patients got hung up on during the appointment scheduling process at a safety-net behavioral health clinic.
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14 Sep 2023
VA Plans to Resume Oracle Cerner EHR Modernization in Summer 2024
By Hannah NelsonAt a recent House hearing, VA and Oracle Cerner officials said they expect to restart the agency’s $10 billion EHR modernization in the summer of 2024.
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14 Sep 2023
University of Houston Awarded $3M to Develop Lupus Diagnostic AI
By Shania KennedyUniversity of Houston researchers have received a $3 million NIH grant to fund the development of an AI tool to classify lupus nephritis using histopathology data.
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13 Sep 2023
Pancreatic Cancer Prediction Model May Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies
By Shania KennedyA pancreatic cancer prediction model using common blood markers has the potential to improve early detection and reduce unnecessary biopsies by six percent.
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13 Sep 2023
Benefits of Care Coordination Tick Up with Patient Activation
By Sara HeathPrior data showed care coordination programs don’t impact outcomes like hospital readmissions, but new analysis shows patient activation makes a difference.
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13 Sep 2023
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes zero-days in Word and Streaming Service
By Alex ScroxtonSeptember 2023 brings a light Patch Tuesday, with two zero-days and five critical vulnerabilities listed in the latest release
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13 Sep 2023
Patients Skeptical of Nursing Home Care Quality, Patient Experience
By Sara HeathNursing homes have a public image issue, with American patients giving them just a D+ for quality of care, patient safety, and experience.
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13 Sep 2023
Senate Appoints VA Deputy Secretary to Lead EHR Modernization Project
By Hannah NelsonIn her new role as deputy secretary, Tanya Bradsher will oversee the troubled VA EHR modernization program launched in October 2020.
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12 Sep 2023
Oracle Stock Falls in Part Due to Cerner EHR Revenue Weakness
By Hannah NelsonAs the technology vendor moves Cerner EHR clients to cloud subscriptions, Safra Catz, Oracle CEO, warned of near-term weakness in revenue growth.
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12 Sep 2023
European enterprises to spend more on generative IT to close gap on US
By Karl FlindersEuropean organisations are upping their spending on generative AI innovation, but face challenges recruiting the right people to support this
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12 Sep 2023
US Providers Accelerating Spending on Health IT Software, AI
By Shania KennedyCost pressures, labor shortages, and the emergence of technologies like generative AI are increasing healthcare provider investment in IT and software.
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11 Sep 2023
University of Glasgow launches Centre for data science and AI
By Karl FlindersScottish university will apply artificial intelligence and data science to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges
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11 Sep 2023
OIG: VA Lacked Timelines for Cerner EHRM Progress Reports
By Hannah NelsonOIG found that Cerner did not have deadlines for corrections to VA EHRM progress reports, which could have limited VA’s ability to manage deliverables.
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11 Sep 2023
OIG: Failure to Post Home Health Falls Taints Care Compare Quality
By Sara HeathMore than half of the Medicare claims for a home health fall that resulted in hospitalization don’t make it to the CMS Care Compare website, OIG said.
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11 Sep 2023
Artificial Intelligence Flags Knee Osteoarthritis Using Medical Images
By Shania KennedyNew AI model helped diagnose knee osteoarthritis in 178% more cases than currently diagnosed in a large patient cohort using only X-rays of the knee joint.
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11 Sep 2023
IR35: HMRC reportedly working to April 2024 start date for settlement offsets fix
By Caroline DonnellyHMRC is reportedly planning to roll out its fix for the double-taxation issue affecting IR35 compliance cases by April 2024
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08 Sep 2023
HHS Proposal Codifies Antidiscrimination, Protects Patient Access to Care
By Sara HeathThe proposal looks at antidiscrimination for people with disabilities, protecting their right to patient access to care, HHS said.
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07 Sep 2023
Microsoft Collab to Build World’s Largest Pathology, Oncology Imaging AI
By Shania KennedyMicrosoft and Paige aim to transform cancer care by developing the world’s largest image-based artificial intelligence models for oncology and pathology.
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07 Sep 2023
GPs in Slough help control patients’ blood pressure through tech
By Lis EvenstadThe GP practices use digital technology to identify, diagnose and manage patients with hypertension
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07 Sep 2023
Personalized Clinical Documentation Tools Linked to EHR Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonPhysicians who use personalized clinical documentation tools, such as templates and shortcuts, report the highest levels of EHR satisfaction, a KLAS report found.
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07 Sep 2023
Patient Triage Artificial Intelligence May Boost Future Outbreak Response
By Shania KennedyA patient triage AI model can accurately predict disease severity and length of hospitalization during a viral outbreak using clinical and metabolomics data.
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06 Sep 2023
Pathology Foundation Model Leverages Medical Twitter Images, Comments
By Shania KennedyStanford researchers have developed a public pathology dataset and a foundation AI model based on diagnostic images and comments from medical Twitter.
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06 Sep 2023
Public Health Messaging on RSV Needs Leg Up for Older Adults
By Sara HeathAround three-quarters were at least unsure about getting the RSV shot, prompting calls for better public health messaging.
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06 Sep 2023
Produce Prescription Programs Boost Diet, Health Outcomes
By Sara HeathResearchers found patients in a produce prescription program ate more nutrient-rich foods, which may have bolstered their health outcomes.
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06 Sep 2023
Investment Firm Acquires Health IT Vendor NextGen Healthcare
By Hannah NelsonUpon completing the deal with software investment firm Thoma Bravo, NextGen Healthcare will be a privately held health IT company.
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05 Sep 2023
AI Voice Assistants Insufficient for Layperson CPR Instructions
By Shania KennedyResearchers have demonstrated that layperson CPR directions provided by artificial intelligence voice assistants were often inconsistent or irrelevant.
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04 Sep 2023
TUC launches AI taskforce for workers’ rights and societal benefit
By Brian McKennaThe Trades Union Congress has launched what it calls an AI ‘taskforce’ to draft an AI and Employment Bill, aimed at safeguarding workers’ rights, early in 2024
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01 Sep 2023
Pediatric Provider Taps MEDITECH Expanse EHR to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe MEDITECH Expanse EHR implementation will support interoperability of patient health data for care coordination across Bethany Children's Health Center.
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01 Sep 2023
American Heart Association Releases Guidance for Patient Data Sharing
By Shania KennedyNew American Heart Association policy guidance emphasizes that patient data use in medical research must balance both individual privacy and research benefits.
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31 Aug 2023
Rural Hospitals Focus on Social Determinants of Health, Transportation
By Sara HeathOne hundred percent of the rural hospitals included in the study addressed transportation as a social determinant of health blocking patient care access.
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30 Aug 2023
Deep Learning Model Automates Severe Heart Valve Disease Detection
By Shania KennedyA novel deep learning approach can detect aortic stenosis using ultrasound scans of the heart, which could enable early detection and intervention.
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29 Aug 2023
Epic Sepsis Prediction Model Lacks Clinical Decision Support Timeliness
By Hannah NelsonA new study found that the Epic Sepsis Prediction Model was less timely and missed more cases than other clinical decision support tools, including SOFA and SIRS.