The Coalition for Health AI has released its draft framework for responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence in healthcare. The framework – consisting of a standards guide and a series of checklists – was developed over more than two years, according to CHAI, which says it addresses an urgent need for consensus standards and … Read more
Artificial intelligence tools are helping primary care doctors diagnose skin cancer, home care providers retain employees and hospital doctors get early warnings about potential patient mental health episodes in stories we’re reading this week. Solventum announced it is now using AI to flip revenue cycle processes and address denials proactively. Through a new partnership with … Read more
San Antonio, Texas-based University Health faced several medication management challenges that could impact both efficiency and patient safety. THE PROBLEM As a large and continuously expanding health system – including a Level I trauma center, retail pharmacies and specialty pharmacy – it recognized the need to optimize its medication distribution process. Nurses often spent excessive … Read more
The nursing profession is changing – in large part fueled by information technology that can help nurses meet a growing list of challenges, said Summer Blackerby, RN, chief nursing information officer at CoxHealth Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Blackerby knows what it is like being a nurse today and the challenges nurses face on a daily … Read more
New funding from Amazon Web Services, the Children’s Health Innovation Award, or Imagine Grant, will provide $7 million for cloud-based data resources for pediatric research, maternal child total health and empowering pediatric workforces and caregivers, according to an announcement made Wednesday at the AWS summit in Washington, D.C. In addition, AWS has awarded three hospitals … Read more
Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system’s operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some hospitals and primary care clinics are experimenting with artificial intelligence and large language models to focus on note-taking and scribe work. With physicians burnt … Read more
Emory Healthcare constantly is evolving and innovating the care it provides. With regard to at-home physical therapy providers, the health system was intrigued to understand how it could expand its service offerings for outpatient care. THE PROBLEM Especially in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the way Emory thinks about off-site care and … Read more
When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this past week issued its final rule codifying the financial disincentives to be levied by its Office for Civil Rights against provider organizations found to have committed information blocking, reaction was swift and mostly dissatisfied from industry groups. The point of such penalties, which could be … Read more
Albany, Georgia-based Phoebe Physician Group, an affiliate of the Phoebe Putney Health System, operates in a predominantly rural, 41-county service area where caregivers say it has become increasingly acceptable in the patients’ eyes to miss a doctor’s appointment. THE PROBLEM As such, the physician group’s overall no-show rate was at 12% – more than double … Read more
Over the past two years, hospitals in Taiwan have been increasingly taking the spotlight for their digital maturity. Perhaps the most prolific of this group is China Medical University Hospital, which has scored multiple HIMSS validations and achieved a global third ranking for the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator in 2022. In January this year, the … Read more