Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 7/14/25
There’s always a lot of buzz around wearables. The majority of US adults have a smartphone in their pocket or purse, so a treasure trove of data can be collected without adding a secondary…
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X-ray2CTPA: leveraging diffusion models to enhance pulmonary embolism classification
Chest X-rays or chest radiography (CXR), commonly used for medical diagnostics, typically enables limited imaging compared to computed tomography (CT) scans, which offer more detailed and accurate three-dimensional data, particularly contrast-enhanced scans like CT…
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What Are Senior and Post-Acute Care Organizations’ Top Technology Priorities Today?
How AI Is Reducing Senior Care Staff Burnout
Artificial intelligence has proved to be an effective tool for improving staff and clinical efficiency, whether at a senior living organization or at a post-acute care provider.
Instead…
Digital Lifelines: Fortifying Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Amid Budget Cuts
Kory Daniels, Chief Information Security Officer at Trustwave
IT leaders in healthcare are no strangers to pressure. They are expected to safeguard sensitive patient data, maintain compliance, and ensure teams have the technology needed to…
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CIO Podcast – Episode 98: CIO in Retrospection with Rich Temple
For the 98th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rich Temple, Former CIO! We kick this episode off with Temple sharing his greatest career achievement and…
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Monday Morning Update 7/14/25
Top News
Johns Hopkins Health System launches Illustra Health, which applies analytics and Hopkins best practices to population health management.
HIStalk Announcements and Requests
Poll respondents aren’t convinced that insurers will voluntarily streamline prior authorization
New poll…
A perspective for adapting generalist AI to specialized medical AI applications and their challenges
We introduce a framework to adapt large language models for medicine: (1) Modeling: breaking down medical workflows into manageable steps; (2) Optimization: optimizing model performance via advanced adaptations; and (3) System engineering: developing agent…
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GH-UNet: group-wise hybrid convolution-VIT for robust medical image segmentation
Medical image segmentation is vital for accurate diagnosis. While U-Net-based models are effective, they struggle to capture long-range dependencies in complex anatomy. We propose GH-UNet, a Group-wise Hybrid Convolution-ViT model within the U-Net framework,…
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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 7/10/25
I finally had time to dig into the recent paper about the “accumulation of cognitive debt” that happens when using AI assistants.
As a proud member of Generation X, I first experienced those…
Extending IAM and Zero Trust to All Administrative Accounts
1. Find Solutions for Legacy System Challenges
Healthcare is full of legacy systems, such as diagnostic and lab tools installed 25 years ago that remain in use without hope for a software upgrade. IAM products…