CHICAGO — Implementing precision medicine programs could allow health systems to diagnose disease more quickly or predict a patient’s response to a specific mediation, said panelists at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference &…
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Health systems are facing a difficult financial future as labor costs soar and the population ages, increasing demand just as hospitals have less resources to serve them, said panelists at the 2023 HIMSS Global…
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EHR vendors, Epic and eClinicalWorks, have launched a generative artificial intelligence (GPT) features at the HIMSS23 conference. The tools enable provider organizations to search and summarize contextual information with natural language searches powered by…
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Healthcare organizations are increasingly concerned about ransomware attacks, which are the most significant threat to hospitals and healthcare facilities. Nate Lesser, CISO of Children’s National Hospital, emphasized the importance of cybersecurity as a team…
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Achieving interoperability in healthcare can help advance health equity, according to experts at the HIMSS23 global conference in Chicago. Widespread health data interchange can aid in bridging the digital divide, which is blocking certain…
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Startups are at the heart of the MedCity INVEST conference scheduled for May 22-24 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Chicago. The Ask the Investor program provides an intimate setting for startups to ask…
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As we reach kind of the midpoint of the HIMSS 2023 annual conference, a few themes have really come into shape. I’m happy (and kind of sad) to say that are predictions of the…
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CHICAGO – It’s the most valuable data on the dark web, and with 76% of healthcare organizations paying the ransoms, “we’re funding the attacks ourselves,” said Nate Lesser, Children’s National Hospital’s vice president and…
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Tuesday was a strong first day for the exhibit hall at HIMSS, and for the first time in a couple of years, I found myself wishing I had more time planned for the exhibit…
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This is how the main aisles look in the exhibit hall, which I’m mentioning again since I heard a lot of complaints today. This is apparently a live electrical line that ends up in…
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