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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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29 Aug 2023
ChatGPT Achieves High Accuracy in Clinical Decision-Making Tasks
By Shania KennedyResearchers from Mass General Brigham found ChatGPT to be 72 percent accurate overall across the clinical decision-making process and in various care settings.
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29 Aug 2023
Top-performing CISOs reserve time for professional development
By Alex ScroxtonSurvey of chief information security officers conducted by Gartner sheds light on habits shared by the top-performing members of the profession
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29 Aug 2023
VA CIO Hopeful Revised Oracle Cerner Contract Will Mend EHR Project
By Hannah NelsonKurt DelBene, VA CIO, is “cautiously optimistic” that stronger Oracle Cerner contract terms will set the EHR modernization on the right path.
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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.
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29 Aug 2023
ONC Awards The Sequoia Project Contract to Continue TEFCA RCE Role
By Hannah NelsonWith TEFCA go-live slated for late 2023, ONC has awarded The Sequoia Project a five-year contract to continue serving as recognized coordinating entity (RCE).
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29 Aug 2023
What’s The Best Way to Discuss Value-Based Care with Patients?
By Sara HeathTerms like “quality-focused care” resonated more with patients than the term “value-based care.”
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28 Aug 2023
EHR Vendor NextGen Exploring Sale of Company, Sources Say
By Hannah NelsonOn the heels of a $31 million settlement with the DOJ, EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare is reportedly considering a sale of the company.
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28 Aug 2023
HCAHPS, Patient Experience Scores Tank During COVID-19 Due to Staffing
By Sara HeathThe key HCAHPS domains impacted by COVID-19 included cleanliness and responsiveness of staff, showing the effect staffing has on patient experience.
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28 Aug 2023
Machine Learning Predicts Esophageal, Stomach Cancers Using EHR Data
By Shania KennedyA new machine learning tool accurately predicts incident esophageal adenocarcinoma and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma three years prior to diagnosis using EHR data.
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28 Aug 2023
How Neighborhood Sways Pediatric Primary and Preventive Care Access
By Sara HeathUnderstanding how neighborhood disadvantage can affect pediatric primary and preventive care access, plus outcomes, can help tailor provider interventions.
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25 Aug 2023
FQHC Taps eClinicalWorks Health IT to Boost Population Health
By Hannah NelsonAn FQHC in Connecticut increased HIV screenings by 11 percent after adopting population health modules from health IT vendor eClinicalWorks.
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25 Aug 2023
Researchers Validate NLP Tool to Extract SDOH from Clinical Notes
By Shania KennedyAn NLP-based SDOH tool has displayed significant generalizability, portability, and accuracy across two organizationally and geographically distinct health systems.
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25 Aug 2023
What Do Orgs Want in Patient Safety & Compliance Technology?
By Sara HeathAlthough functionality was the top feature in patient safety and compliance technology, cost also emerged as a determining factor.
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24 Aug 2023
Additional Epic EHR Education Linked to Clinician Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonWhile Epic EHR education courses boost clinician satisfaction, providers want more opportunities to share best practices with their peers.
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24 Aug 2023
Additional Epic EHR Education Linked to Clinician Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonWhile Epic EHR education courses boost clinician satisfaction, providers want more opportunities to share best practices with their peers.
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24 Aug 2023
NHS SBS to launch £1.5bn digital workplace solutions framework
By Lis EvenstadNHS Shared Business Services is planning on a second iteration of its digital workplace solutions framework before the current one expires in August 2024
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24 Aug 2023
NHS England calls on NHS organisations to take part in wireless trials
By Lis EvenstadNHS organisations are encouraged to apply for funding for the wireless trials programme, which aims to explore how cutting-edge tech can improve patient care
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23 Aug 2023
Deep Learning Method Helps Correct Motion-Corrupted Brain MRIs
By Shania KennedyMIT researchers leveraged physics principles and deep learning to help fix brain MRIs corrupted by motion artifacts, which may help curb misdiagnoses.
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23 Aug 2023
1 in 5 Women Have Bad Patient Experience in Maternity Care
By Sara HeathThe most common issues with maternity care patient experience include being threatened with withholding treatment or being made to accept unwanted treatment.
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23 Aug 2023
Cyber attacks in 2023 develop quicker as average dwell times plummet
By Alex ScroxtonThe median attacker dwell time shrunk from 10 to eight days in the first seven months of 2023, and in the case of ransomware attacks it is down to just five days
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23 Aug 2023
Is The American Public Swayed by Medical Misinformation?
By Sara HeathKFF data showed that there’s still a lot of gray area in terms of whether the public believes widespread medical misinformation.
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22 Aug 2023
OpenNotes Launches Resources to Help Patients Use Clinician Notes
By Sara HeathOpenNotes said the tools will help patients understand and be able to use open notes, with special resources touching on specific patient populations, like pediatrics.
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22 Aug 2023
Michigan HIE Taps Health IT to Advance Interoperability Use Cases
By Hannah NelsonMichigan's state-designated HIE is implementing a health data fabric solution to drive health IT interoperability and boost scalability.
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22 Aug 2023
Deep Learning-Based Electrocardiogram Screening Detects Heart Defects
By Shania KennedyNew deep learning model outperformed traditional methods for detecting signs of atrial septal defect, an underreported but potentially serious heart condition.
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22 Aug 2023
Patient Education, Navigation Stand in the Way of Preventive Screening
By Sara HeathPatient-provider communication can help overcome patient education and care coordination barriers to preventive screenings for colorectal cancer.
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21 Aug 2023
Experts: Medical Community Must Help Shape Use of LLMs in Healthcare
By Shania KennedyWith interest in large language model applications growing, researchers argue that the medical community must help guide how these tools are used in healthcare.
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18 Aug 2023
Effective Resident EHR Training Hinges on Personal Initiative
By Hannah NelsonResearchers said residency programs should foster relationships between medical assistants and residents to support EHR use and clinical documentation.
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18 Aug 2023
Effective Resident EHR Training Hinges on Personal Initiative
By Hannah NelsonResearchers said residency programs should foster relationships between medical assistants and residents to support EHR use and clinical documentation.
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18 Aug 2023
Nashville Hospital Swaps Multiple EHR Systems for Oracle Community Works
By Sarai RodriguezNashville General Hospital will switch out multi-EHR systems moving forward with Oracle Cerner CommunityWorks for a single EHR.
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18 Aug 2023
ML Model Accurately Predicts 6-Month Mortality Risk for Cancer Patients
By Shania KennedyAn externally validated ML model for six-month cancer prognosis prediction may help facilitate serious illness conversations between clinicians and patients.
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17 Aug 2023
NUHS taps LLM to boost productivity, patient care
By Aaron TanHealthcare professionals at Singapore’s National University Health System can now summarise patient case notes and predict patient healthcare journeys using a large language model trained by a supercomputer
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17 Aug 2023
Latinas See Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening, Age of Diagnosis
By Sara HeathYoung diagnosis but low access to breast cancer screening indicates Latina women seek care once they see symptoms, potentially when cancer is further along.
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17 Aug 2023
Epic Announces Integration for Generative AI Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonEmory Healthcare in Georgia will deploy the generative AI integration across its Epic EHR to streamline clinical documentation workflows.
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17 Aug 2023
NLP May Help Flag SDOH Needs for Alzheimer’s, Dementia Patients
By Shania KennedyNatural language processing tool uses unstructured EHR data to identify social determinants of health for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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16 Aug 2023
Accenture’s Brussels AI lab to focus on European public sector and health
By Karl FlindersAccenture will use its Brussels AI lab to test AI and generative AI's application in the European public sector
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16 Aug 2023
Deep Learning Tool May Support Personalized Cancer Care
By Shania KennedyJohns Hopkins researchers have developed a deep learning method to predict cancer-related protein fragments that trigger tumor cell-killing immune responses.
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16 Aug 2023
How Common Is Medical Misinformation Spread by Physicians?
By Sara HeathNew data shows that physicians who spread COVID-19 medical misinformation had a broad reach on social media.
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15 Aug 2023
YouTube Revamps Medical Misinformation Guidelines for Video Content
By Sara HeathThe medical misinformation guidelines will assess whether YouTube video content contradicts local health authorities or the World Health Organization.
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15 Aug 2023
ONC Awards $2M for Health IT Interoperability Projects
By Hannah NelsonPart of the ONC funding will go towards a health IT project to drive advance care planning interoperability using advanced FHIR standards.
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15 Aug 2023
Clinicians May Be Unprepared for Widespread CDS Algorithm Integration
By Shania KennedyResearchers posit that clinicians need more training on how to use clinical decision support algorithms before they can be integrated into medical practice.
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15 Aug 2023
How Healthcare Can Overcome Shared Decision-Making Challenges
By Sara HeathIntegrating decision aids into the EHR and creating reimbursement models will be key to clearing shared decision-making hurdles.
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14 Aug 2023
Data Utilization, Investment Lagging Among Hospitals and Health Systems
By Shania KennedyA new report detailing data utilization within health systems shows that only 57 percent of organizations’ data is being used to drive business decisions.
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14 Aug 2023
CMA provisionally clears US healthcare giant’s purchase of GP IT supplier EMIS
By Lis EvenstadUS company UnitedHealth is looking to buy UK healthcare technology firm EMIS in a £1.2bn deal
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11 Aug 2023
Few Executives Establishing Strategies for Highly Trusted AI
By Mark MelchionnaAlthough many health executives think highly of AI capabilities, only 6 percent have an established strategy.
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10 Aug 2023
DWP accounts highlight decline in outside IR35 workers in wake of department’s £87.9m tax bill
By Caroline DonnellyThe Department for Work and Pensions has seen a marked decline in the number of outside IR35 contractors it engages since the department was hit with a £87.9m tax bill several years ago, its accounts show
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10 Aug 2023
Georgia HIE Receives Grant for SDOH Interoperability Pilot Program
By Hannah NelsonThe state-designated HIE will use the $200,000 grant to demonstrate the feasibility of a closed-loop referral service for SDOH interoperability.
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10 Aug 2023
Same Home Care Nurse May Cut Hospital Readmissions for LEP Patients
By Sara HeathResearchers said deploying the same home care nurse enables strong patient-provider relationships that can yield lower hospital readmission risk.
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10 Aug 2023
Babylon Health faces downfall
By Lis EvenstadGP at Hand provider once hailed by Matt Hancock looking to sell UK business after merger plans collapse
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10 Aug 2023
Sutton Council steps up tech-enabled care for residents
By Lis EvenstadCouncil partners with technology-enabled care provider to support vulnerable residents living independently in their own homes
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10 Aug 2023
Senator Calls on Google to Ensure Ethical Deployment of Health AI
By Shania KennedyIn a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, US Sen. Mark R. Warner raises concerns about transparency, patient privacy, and ethical guardrails related to Med-PaLM 2.
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10 Aug 2023
Community Health Centers Offer Care Access for 31.5M Patients
By Sara HeathCommunity health centers expand care access for underserved groups, but a looming lapse in funding threatens that moving forward.
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09 Aug 2023
Google, ChatGPT: Inadequate Dementia Resources Despite Strengths
By Mark MelchionnaNew research indicated that Google and ChatGPT provided benefits and downsides when researching dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
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08 Aug 2023
Clinical Decision Support Tools Did Not Reduce CVD Disparities
By Mark MelchionnaNew research indicated that clinical decision support tools did not significantly reduce racial and sex disparities among CVD patients.
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08 Aug 2023
Legislators Introduce Act for Behavioral Health IT Adoption
By Hannah NelsonThe bipartisan act would provide $20 million a year in grant funding over five fiscal years to finance behavioral health IT adoption.
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08 Aug 2023
78% of Adults with OUD Go Without Access to Addiction Treatment
By Sara HeathNew data also uncovered MAT disparities, with Black people being more likely than their White counterparts to go without access to addiction treatment.
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08 Aug 2023
Poor Interoperability Limited Primary Care COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
By Hannah NelsonPoor immunization interoperability prevented many primary care practices from identifying their unvaccinated patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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08 Aug 2023
Deep Learning Model Detects Diabetes Using Routine Chest Radiographs
By Shania KennedyNew deep learning tool leverages chest x-rays and electronic health record data to flag elevated diabetes risk up to three years before diagnosis.
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08 Aug 2023
SDOH, Structural Barriers Quell Maternity Outcomes for Home-Based Care
By Sara HeathStructural inequities and higher burden of social determinants of health are more than home-based care nurses can mitigate, researchers said.
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07 Aug 2023
NHS trust suspends two governors as whistleblower email dispute continues
By Tommy GreeneGovernors at an NHS trust have been suspended after asking questions about emails used to bring a General Medical Council investigation against a whistleblower
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04 Aug 2023
SoutheastHEALTH Joins Mercy, Gaining Access to Epic EHR System
By Sarai RodriguezA definitive agreement between Mercy and SoutheastHEALTH will merge the health systems, providing the latter access to the Epic EHR system.
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04 Aug 2023
Discrimination in Pediatrics Raises Questions About Weathering
By Sara HeathResearchers said both child and parent experiences with discrimination in the pediatric setting could impact long-term health by way of weathering.
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03 Aug 2023
Scottish NHS trust ducks fine after staff shared patient data via WhatsApp
By Alex ScroxtonNHS Lanarkshire has been issued a formal reprimand by the ICO after staff members used WhatsApp to share patients’ personal data with one another
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03 Aug 2023
Online Reviews Show Patients Seek Strong Patient-Provider Communication
By Sarai RodriguezOnline provider reviews are often tied to strong patient-provider communication, with patients highlighting thorough procedure explanations when leaving five-star reviews.
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03 Aug 2023
Deterioration Index Model Modestly Predicts Patient Outcomes
By Mark MelchionnaWhen applied to hospitalized patients, a deterioration index model could modestly foresee patient outcomes with some disparities.
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02 Aug 2023
Duke Health, Microsoft Launch Generative Artificial Intelligence Partnership
By Shania KennedyThe new collaboration between Microsoft and Duke Health will focus on how generative AI and cloud technology can advance health equity and improve care.
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02 Aug 2023
House Legislators Propose $1.9B VA EHR Budget for 2024
By Hannah NelsonIf passed by the Senate, the bill would allocate $1.9 billion to the VA EHR modernization in fiscal year 2024, including $253 million for program management.
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02 Aug 2023
83% of Acute Care Hospitals Engage in Some SDOH Data Collection
By Sarai RodriguezDespite a known link between addressing social needs and improved health outcomes, just 54 percent of acute care hospitals engage in routine SDOH data collection.
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02 Aug 2023
Scalable Tools Assisted Domestic Violence Risk Assessment
By Mark MelchionnaAccording to new research, prediction tools supported decision-making in treatment allocation for health services related to domestic violence.
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02 Aug 2023
Maternity Deserts, Low Access to Care Affect 5.6M Birthing People
By Sara HeathResearchers said the increase in maternity deserts and poor access to care is in part due to the closure of obstetric wards.
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01 Aug 2023
AI Algorithm Can Predict Mortality Based on Body Measurements
By Mark MelchionnaNew research indicated that an AI algorithm could use body composition measurements to predict lung cancer, CVD, and all-cause mortality.
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31 Jul 2023
Health IT Vendor Surescripts Settles Antitrust Lawsuit with FTC
By Hannah NelsonThe FTC has reached a settlement with Surescripts that prohibits the health IT vendor from executing non-compete agreements with employees.
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31 Jul 2023
G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through
By Caroline DonnellyGovernment procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites
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31 Jul 2023
Third-Party Technology Investment Continues to Rise
By Mark MelchionnaNew research described how the desire to digitally transform healthcare contributes to third-party technology investments.
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31 Jul 2023
National Academies Call for Federal Body on Health Equity
By Sara HeathIn addition to a health equity body, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine called for better race and ethnicity data collection.
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28 Jul 2023
Three Provider Orgs Look to eClinicalWorks EHR for Workflow Upgrades
By Sarai RodriguezPrimary Care Joliet, Encore Health Group, UniVida Medical Centers have recently invested in eClinicalWorks EHR to advance workflow upgrades.
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28 Jul 2023
EHR Work Associated With Clinician Burnout Across Specialties
By Hannah NelsonA study found that a “pooling” system to triage patient portal messages did not reduce the odds of clinician burnout from EHR work.
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28 Jul 2023
Children’s Hospital Colorado Launches Precision Medicine Institute
By Mark MelchionnaThe launch of the Precision Medicine Institute at Children’s Colorado will advance treatment for cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and other conditions.
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28 Jul 2023
16% of Orgs Get Top-Marks in CMS Hospital Star Ratings for July 2023
By Sara HeathThe CMS Hospital Star Rating update in July 2023 showed just a fraction of organizations rank highly for patient safety, patient experience, and outcomes.
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27 Jul 2023
AWS Releases Generative AI Service for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe new AWS service will support generative AI clinical documentation capabilities for general medicine and orthopedics specialties.
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27 Jul 2023
Postpartum Care Visits Underdeliver on Heart Health Counseling
By Sarai RodriguezAlthough about 90 percent of US women attend a postpartum visit, a new report shows that heart health counseling is lacking for 40 percent of at-risk women.