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…
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Clinicians typically use several apps throughout their day, and that is likely to continue as the number of healthcare-focused apps increases. The time it takes to type in passwords for those apps can add…
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I’ve spent my entire career in healthcare and healthcare IT. I have worked in a number of settings, from small private practices to large health systems, and from startup technology organizations to major EHR…
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst released a paper this week exploring how often large language models tend to hallucinate when producing medical summaries.
Over the past year or two, healthcare providers have been…
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While there seems to be an endless wave of new technologies and solutions that could greatly benefit our organizations, none of them matter if we do not have the funds to adopt and support…
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While there seems to be an endless wave of new technologies and solutions that could greatly benefit our organizations, none of them matter if we do not have the funds to adopt and support…
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To address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Osaka Metropolitan University researchers developed a new scoring that uses only data available from prehospital resuscitations to accurately predict neurological outcomes and enable clinicians to make better-informed decisions upon…
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Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, or MiHIN, has partnered with Beyond Lucid Technologies, a healthcare data exchange and analytics company, as well as the Reading Emergency Unit and South Central-based Hillsdale Hospital.The aim…
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Aaron Painter, CEO of Nametag Imagine you’re an IT professional for a large health system. A resident physician calls and says he must urgently send in a patient script, but he’s locked out of…
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What You Should Know: – Community health centers (CHCs), serving as the cornerstone of America’s healthcare safety net, are grappling with a critical issue: a worsening workforce shortage. – A new report by the…
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