NHS England has commissioned an evaluation to measure the impact of its national virtual wards initiative.
There are more than 12,000 virtual ‘beds’ operating nationwide and in May 2024, NHSE announced proposals to increase access…
Ramsay Health Care will start augmenting clinical documentation across its network of private healthcare facilities in Australia with AI. Its new AI-powered tool called Ramsay Scribe is set to be piloted at the emergency department…
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Queensland Revolutionizes Emergency Department Transparency
Queensland’s healthcare system has taken a groundbreaking step forward with the introduction of their Open Hospitals online portal. This innovative platform provides real-time tracking of emergency department wait times and…
Continuous access to electronic health records will fuel the digital transformation of medicine. For data-sharing initiatives, the challenge lies in ensuring data access aligns with the interests of data holders. Federated data access authorization,…
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Pivotal moments in sepsis care occur in the emergency department (ED), however, and it is unclear whether ED data is adequate to inform reinforcement learning (RL) models. We evaluated the early opportunity for the…
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Chase County Community Hospital has faced a number of challenges similar to those confronted by many other rural health systems. Chief among them was a growing shortage of physicians, a problem projected to worsen…
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I’ve worked in two different situations where the arrival of private equity funding dramatically changed the patient care environment.
The first was when I was working in the emergency department. Although I was a…
Current National Health Crisis The CDC’s January 2024 update indicates widespread respiratory infections across the United States, based on emergency department diagnosis patterns and wastewater analysis.
State-by-State Impact Analysis Eleven states, including Arizona, Florida, and…
In this study, we investigate the performance of computer vision AI algorithms in predicting patient disposition from the emergency department (ED) using short video clips. Clinicians often use “eye-balling” or clinical gestalt to aid…
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San Jose, California-based VSee Health, a telehealth company, announced it partnered with Tele911, a telemedicine and patient navigation platform for the emergency medical services sector. The alliance will utilize VSee Health’s telehealth building blocks platform…
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