Wearable technology in emergency care is the latest focus of DigitalHealth.London’s Healthcare Challenges, a programme designed to bring together clinicians, innovators, NHS leaders, and people with lived experience to identify and accelerate solutions to…
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Integrate EMS data into hospital systems to enhance ED operations © 2025 HIMSS. All rights reserved. Hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the country are struggling with limited capacity and more complex cases, leading to longer…
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James Lakes, MSc is president of Mednition.
Tell me about yourself and the company.
Mednition works with healthcare leaders and providers who are looking to improve the clinical, financial, and operational performance of…
Health human resource constraints in Canada have left millions of patients without timely access to primary care (PC), leading many to attend emergency departments (ED) to see a doctor. We evaluated changes in service…
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Physician advisory programs, which educate clinicians in peer-to-peer fashion, are growing in several ways. This video at the AHIMA Annual Conference explores the many uses of these programs, as well as how to implement…
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The Role of Emergency Departments in Healthcare Access
For millions of Americans, particularly those residing in rural and underserved communities, emergency departments (EDs) serve as the primary—and often only—gateway to timely medical care. These critical…
A partnership between East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) and Excelerate Technology has enabled ambulance crews to consult stroke specialists via video in areas without reliable mobile coverage.
Poor signal in rural and…
New Zealand’s new program, providing round-the-clock access to primary healthcare services, has gone live.The 24/7 online general practice service, first announced in March and piloted in May, seeks to help relieve the overcrowding in emergency…
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At eHealth 2025 in Toronto, something changed: leaders stopped talking about interoperability and started showing how they’re making it work. From AI scribes in clinical settings to data-sharing partnerships that bypass traditional roadblocks, this…
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Sepsis accounts for a substantial portion of global deaths and healthcare costs. The objective of this reproducibility study is to validate Duke Health’s Sepsis Watch ML model, in a new community healthcare setting and…
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