As digital transformation initiatives accelerate, healthcare organizations must bring their applications up to date. The limitations of some legacy applications may hold back transformation efforts and hamper improvements to efficiency, productivity and security.
“This slows…
Engineers at the Federal University of Espirito Santo in Brazil have developed smart pants that can non-intrusively track physical movements and provide updates to caregivers if the people they’re taking care of are showing…
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Engineers at the University of Sydney have developed a photonic radar that allows them to monitor breathing rates without the need to attach equipment to a patient’s skin. Wired or more invasive systems may…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 25, 2023 – Using an algorithm, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers discovered that the period from 2010 to 2018 resulted in a 43 percent increase in physician turnover, highlighting the need to determine…
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Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a wound sensor patch that measures various wound biomarkers that can indicate would healing. Chronic wounds are an ongoing problem for many patients, and developing…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 24, 2023 – While the COVID-19 pandemic increased patient EHR message volume across specialties, women physicians experienced a significantly greater message increase, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers analyzed EHR…
Changing Attitudes Toward Telehealth and Creating Continuous CareWhile telehealth will not replace all traditional healthcare, acceptance has been key to increasing demand from patients.
Clinicians’ attitudes toward telehealth have become more positive since the pandemic…
Non-accidental trauma (NAT) is deadly and difficult to predict. Transformer models pretrained on large datasets have recently produced state of the art performance on diverse prediction tasks, but the optimal pretraining strategies for diagnostic…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 19, 2023 – EHR integration of natural language processing (NLP) models can effectively triage patients reporting positive at-home COVID-19 test results through the patient portal, according to a study published in JAMA…
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Nevro, a medtech company based in California, has developed the HFX iQ spinal cord stimulation system, which is intended to treat chronic pain. While spinal cord stimulators can be very useful in controlling certain…
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