Epic’s new Partners and Pals initiative has another member: Talkdesk, which develops cloud-based, AI-enabled contact center technology, will take part in the program.WHY IT MATTERSThe company”s new collaboration with Epic will expand the integration…
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Through a broad agency announcement about the Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone solicitation, the U.S. Health and Human Services office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is seeking to adapt Department…
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HIMSS this month has been spotlighting the most recent recipients of the HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence, which recognizes health systems for their “innovative, thoughtful applications of information and technology” toward improved patient outcomes…
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Neutropenic fever is a common complication for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. In fact, one out of every 29 chemotherapy-treated patients is hospitalized, with a startling mortality rate of 7-9.5%. Fevers can come on suddenly and…
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Leveraging its latest supercomputing facility, the National University Health System in Singapore has recently developed its own large language model to enhance clinicians’ productivity.The model dubbed NUHS RUSSELL-GPT can summarise patient case notes and write referral…
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The Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital (KMUH) has been recently validated for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.The eight-stage EMRAM gauges a health facility’s effective use and deployment of…
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Generative artificial intelligence – the kind of AI behind the hugely popular ChatGPT application – already is disrupting the healthcare industry. C-suite executives and other health IT leaders at provider organizations need to know…
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The Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities advisory published this month by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, provides details on the common vulnerabilities and exposures routinely and frequently exploited. In 2022, cyber actors exploited older software…
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Appropriate use of provider scheduling tools yields dramatic results across a practice, including improved provider utilization, better patient access, reduction in administrative burden, and faster training and onboarding for new administrative staff, according to…
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Legislative proposals to protect reproductive health data in Maryland could set a precedent in the United States, says Nichole Sweeney,general counsel and chief privacy officer at CRISP, the state-designated health information exchange of Maryland,…
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