Clinician turnover remains a major concern for healthcare organizations because high-quality clinicians make the difference for strong patient outcomesâthe highest goal of healthcare. Turnover is also tied to significant financial cost. To mitigate negative…
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Researchers at New York University’s Langone Health academic medical center developed a large language model, now deployed at three of its hospitals, that predicts a patient’s risk of 30-day readmission and other clinical outcomes.WHY…
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What You Should Know:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released its Fentanyl Study Dashboard, an innovative tool that utilizes data from the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), to track and monitor…
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Background: Drink Less is a behavior change app to help higher-risk drinkers in the United Kingdom reduce their alcohol consumption. The app includes a daily notification asking users to “Please complete your drinks and…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 09, 2023 – A cybersecurity incident at Iowa’s MercyOne Clinton Medical Center leaves around 21,000 patients at risk of protected health information (PHI) exposure and possible data loss.
An unauthorized third party gained…
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HKUST-led study combines AI, genetic info to predict Alzheimer’s riskA research team led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has made an AI model that uses genetic information to predict the…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 08, 2023 – Research from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) indicates that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms performed better than the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) risk model in predicting the…
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Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical
Protocol Driven Care
Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. Standardization reduces waste, makes…
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Healthcare systems regularly train for cataclysmic events such as terrorist attacks, yet rarely engage to establish what happens if several key IT systems go offline. Expert speakers at the HIMSS23 European Health Conference and Exhibition…
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The healthcare workforce crisis in Europe is being exacerbated by extreme levels of stress, anxiety and burnout among clinicians, with the knock-on effect of placing patient care at risk. A session at HIMSS European Health…
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