Introduction
In 2024, state legislative sessions across the United States have seen a significant focus on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare. These legislative efforts reflect growing trends and priorities in ensuring ethical AI implementation,…
What does it mean to transform healthcare? For some, it means centering patients in conversations about their care and interactions with the healthcare system. For others, it means using tools such as artificial intelligence…
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OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care.THE PROBLEM
This issue…
By Anuja Vaidya
June 24, 2024 – New research shows that most surgeons are not open to using telehealth for preoperative visits, largely due to malpractice concerns; however, more than half said they would use telehealth…
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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) has rolled out the BadgerNet electronic patient record (EPR) and Badger Notes online portal in its maternity services. The BadgerNet maternity system and Badger Notes…
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Biomedical engineers at RMIT University have built a smartphone feature that paramedics can use to immediately screen patients for stroke.In partnership with Brazil’s São Paulo State University, RMIT University researchers developed an AI-powered tool…
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I’ve been a nurse for over 25 years. And throughout those 25 years, I’ve had to quickly adapt to new situations as I cared for patients everywhere from the emergency room to the battlefield…
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Replacing registered nurses with non-RN staff is dangerous to patients, according to a new study from the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing published in Medical…
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HealtHIE Nevada, the Silver State’s health information exchange, said this week that it is working with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense to make their patients’ clinical information available to…
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The Health Resources and Services Administration is beginning to use HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources-based application programming interfaces to streamline reporting processes and enhance data quality. Since April 2024, HRSA has received Uniform Data System…
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