Patients and caregivers call hospitals for many reasons, including to make an appointment, inquire about a loved one’s condition, ask for a prescription refill, get directions, or in a medical emergency. Answering the phone…
Continue Reading
The first patients have been scanned by a new £3.6m gamma camera at The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust (SaTH).
The camera, which SaTH said is the single largest investment in “nuclear medicine” made…
Priti Shah, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Iodine Software
Forward-thinking hospitals have long recognized clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and utilization management (UM) as priorities for a successful revenue cycle. The current economic climate only underscores…
Continue Reading
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is to begin trials of a new type of laser-activated antimicrobial in an effort to prevent infections in patients undergoing brain surgery.
Steriwave technology uses a light-activated agent to quickly kill…
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a smart tech initiative to reduce the risk of nerve damage in people living with type 2 diabetes.
The Oceanic (One-Stop Screening And Intensified Care) trial is…
It’s still early days for value-based care. The VBC landscape today is characterized by widespread but sometimes superficial adoption. While many health systems have initiated value-based care programs, these efforts, many experts observe, frequently…
Continue Reading
This week brings some positives for hospitals and health systems in the southeast United States that are dependent on blood supplies with critical network systems back online after the August 1 ransomware attack shut the…
Continue Reading
Ajay Kapare, MBA is president and chief strategy officer of Ellkay.
Tell me about yourself and the company.
I’ve been with Ellkay for six and a half years. Ellkay is an interoperability solution…
More than 60 core IT systems used within laboratories are being rebuilt following the cyber attack on pathology system provider Synnovis, which disrupted healthcare services in London.
Thousands of operations and appointments have been postponed…
A recent study in South Korea has explored the use of a cryptographic scheme widely used in secure elections to protect patient data used in training AI models. Researchers from Asan Medical Center have applied…
Continue Reading
