MedStar Health announced Monday that its acute care at home is now available to Baltimore patients of its Franklin Square Medical Center, Good Samaritan, Harbor and Union Memorial hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS Through the collaboration, Dispatch Health offers pre-scheduled home visits daily, including weekends and holidays, following discharge from emergency departments and inpatient hospital units
Epic has introduced new capabilities supporting Version 3 of the United States Core Data for Interoperability. They’re available more than a year before the federally required December 2025 date to support the new data set. WHY IT MATTERS The new data elements – tribal affiliation, disability status, caregiver relationships, preferred language and more – of USCDI
As the aging population continues to grow – projected to be more than 20% of the U.S. by 2030 – remote patient monitoring is becoming an increasingly important healthcare option. A recent industry report shows more than 60 million people in the U.S. will have used remote patient monitoring in 2024. RPM is one of
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk this past week took to his X social media platform to request that users of his Grok artificial intelligence chatbot upload their medical images and generate a diagnosis. “Try submitting X-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis,” Musk suggested on October 29 the X platform, where
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part interview. To read part one, click here. Dennis Chornenky, chief artificial intelligence adviser at UC Davis Health, knows what it takes to be a chief AI officer in healthcare – he’s been one twice. That’s why we’ve sat down with him for this two-part interview –
It will probably not surprise you that Chief AI Officers are fast becoming a common sight in C-suites across healthcare. Their job descriptions and the skills they must possess to succeed in this new role, are just as complex as the artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies they oversee. Some provider organizations are taking people
Each week, more healthcare technology vendors add artificial intelligence enhancements to their products to optimize healthcare practice and provider efficiencies and personalize patient care. To that end, eClinicalWorks announced a series of artificial intelligence enhancements to its electronic health record products, including healow Genie – a fully integrated 24/7/365 contact center system – while athenahealth
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Halloween this Thursday at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, attendees heard a fright-inducing list of recent Healthcare IT News headlines, all from just this October: A warning this week from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center about Scattered Spider – an appropriately creepy-crawly name – a cybercrime group that leverages ransomware
Hospitals and health systems large and small announced new plans for their electronic health record deployments in September. Two of the bigger ones have opted to migrate to Epic Systems, while Oracle Health has won two new critical access hospitals. ‘Platform of choice’ Delaware-based ChristianaCare recently posted a job listing for a vice president of
Responsible artificial intelligence is basically the only way to go if one is implementing AI technology at their hospital or health system. It is crucial that AI, as complex and important as it is, be trustworthy. Anand Rao is a service professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He is an expert in responsible AI