The combined impact of respiratory illness such as COPD, asthma, chronic cough and pneumonia on individuals and health systems is staggering. COPD alone affects more than 15 million people and costs the healthcare system…
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Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. WHY IT MATTERS
A suite of electronics is enabling patients from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center facility and now Parkwest Medical Center…
By Anuja Vaidya
August 25, 2023 – Virtual multidisciplinary rounds, combined with interventions like discharge huddles, can reduce patient length of stay (LOS) and observation hours, according to a new study.
Previous research, stretching back more than…
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The interpretation of lung auscultation is highly subjective and relies on non-specific nomenclature. Computer-aided analysis has the potential to better standardize and automate evaluation. We used 35.9 hours of auscultation audio from 572 pediatric…
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By Shania Kennedy
May 08, 2023 – Northwestern University researchers found that secondary bacterial pneumonia was a major driver of COVID-19 deaths in critically ill patients following a machine learning (ML)-based analysis of medical record data.
The…
By Mark Melchionna
May 01, 2023 – Beginning on May 1, Penn State Health will provide respiratory therapy services as part of virtual intensive care unit (ICU) services within two of its medical centers to improve…
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Intermountain Health medical informaticists developed a clinical decision support platform that uses evidence-based medicine and artificial intelligence to accelerate patient treatment and integrate with electronic health records in real time.WHY IT MATTERSEvery Intermountain Health…
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What You Should Know:– Today, Butterfly Network announced it received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for a groundbreaking AI-enabled tool named AI-enabled Auto B-line Counter that will help physicians assess adults’ lungs and accelerate providers’ abilities…
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