Less than a week before Christmas day, St Vincent’s Health, one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care providers, detected a breach in its IT system.On 19 December, it responded to the incident…
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By Sara Heath
December 21, 2023 – Z-codes were added as an element of ICD-10 to help healthcare organizations document and track social determinants of health in patients, but two new and unrelated studies in Health…
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The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian, SVP Product Management at Reltio
When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts.
For example, in a survey by the…
Virtual doulas reduce the chances of a cesarean section (C-section) and improve birth experiences at rates that are “comparable” to in-person doula care, a recent study discovered. Doulas provide emotional, physical and informational support…
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By Shania Kennedy
December 18, 2023 – Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) found that the large language model (LLM) ChatGPT-4 outperforms clinicians in some instances of estimating the probabilities of diagnoses before and…
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England’s Health Services Safety Investigations Body says that IT problems are among the most pressing in hospitals, noting that some of the reports it has reviewed involved patient deaths.
It gives examples of…
As clinical burnout continues to be a major issue plaguing the healthcare industry, AI scribing tools are gaining popularity. These tools — made by companies such as Nuance, Augmedix and DeepScribe — use speech…
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Andrew Lockhart, CEO of Fathom
Healthcare leaders need to lean into artificial intelligence (AI) or risk losing out. With advancements in technology taking place at lightning speed, 2024 is the year adopting AI becomes a…
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More than a third of top Australian hospitals have been found to lack basic cybersecurity protocols to protect themselves from email fraud and domain spoofing. FINDINGS
In October, United States-based cybersecurity company Proofpoint made a Domain-based…
Approximately 11.7 million U.S. households do not have in-home internet access and approximately 5.5 million households do not have a computer, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s just the beginning of a deep…
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