Tag: digital
Mid and south Essex to launch ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has signed a 15-year contract with SYNLAB for the delivery of a unified ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service.
The contract, which begins in October 2026, will bring together…
Barts Health deploys imaging de-identification tool
Barts Health NHS Trust has gone live with a feature which automates the removal of identifying patient information from diagnostic images so that they can support medical research into new treatments and technologies.
Sectra’s ‘anonymise…
Monday Morning Update 6/2/25
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Kettering Health (OH) continues to bring systems back online and expand clinical capabilities as it recovers from last week’s cyberattack.
A small subset of data was accessed during the breach, according to the…
How to Interpret Medical Research
Our primer will give you many of the cognitive skills needed to understand the latest research on digital health.
By Paul Cerrato, MA, senior research analyst and communications specialist and John Halamka, M.D., M.S., Diercks…
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A general framework for governing marketed AI/ML medical devices
This project represents the first systematic assessment of the US Food and Drug Administration’s postmarket surveillance of legally marketed artificial intelligence and machine learning based medical devices. We focus on the Manufacturer and User…
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Psychological, economic, and ethical factors in human feedback for a chatbot-based smoking cessation intervention
Integrating human support with chatbot-based behavior change interventions raises three challenges: (1) attuning the support to an individual’s state (e.g., motivation) for enhanced engagement, (2) limiting the use of the concerning human resources for…
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From trial data to personalized medicine: a validated framework with an application to Crohn’s disease
Clinical practice is currently guided by studies that average over patient outcomes. This may not be the best approach, as different patients may have different treatment responses. Here we extend a method for simulating…
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Impact of pharmacist led mobile application on medication adherence and efficacy in chronic kidney disease
Medication adherence is crucial for slowing chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. A specially designed pharmacist-led mobile application, Kidney Health, was evaluated in a single-center, prospective, 3 months, randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess its…
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Hospital Command Centers Transform Healthcare Operations
Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Integrated Technology
Hospital command centers are revolutionizing healthcare delivery by integrating fragmented digital systems into unified operational hubs. While digital transformation promises improved efficiency, many hospitals struggle with disconnected systems that create…