Most clinical information is encoded as free text, not accessible for quantitative analysis. This study presents an open-source pipeline using the local large language model (LLM) “Llama 2” to extract quantitative information from clinical…
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Dr Alec Price-Forbes has been appointed as the national chief clinical information officer (CCIO) and Helen Balsdon as the national chief nursing information officer (CNIO).
The appointments have yet to be officially announced, but Digital…
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust told Digital Health News that it has pushed back the go-live date for its Oracle Health electronic patient record (EPR) system to allow further testing to ensure it is safe…
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The Department of Health and Aged Care and the Australian Digital Health Agency have released a set of minimum software requirement standards for clinical information systems and electronic medication management systems used in residential…
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Diane Bullman reveals the “overwhelmingly positive” difference mentoring made to this year’s participants and looks ahead to the 2025 programme – which includes a new stream run by Imperial College London aimed at emerging…
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Dr Simon Wallace, chief clinical information officer at Microsoft said that a global outage affecting healthcare services had been caused by antivirus firm CrowdStrike.
Speaking at Digital Health Summer Schools on 18 July 2024 at…
Staff at Arkansas’ Harmony Park Family Medicine have been excited about streamlining the prior authorization process with the goal of improving patient access to high-quality care.THE PROBLEM
Prior authorization approval and management historically has been…
Former NHS chief clinical information officer (CCIO) Dr Simon Eccles said that people seeking digital roles in the NHS face a “career rockface” because there is no clear pathway.Speaking at the Digital Health Networks…
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In 2016 a CCIO network survey revealed that only 44% of CCIOs had the authority to carry out their roles effectively. Will the 2024 survey show improvement? By Penny Kechagioglou NHS frontline digitisation needs…
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HealtHIE Nevada, the Silver State’s health information exchange, said this week that it is working with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense to make their patients’ clinical information available to…
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