A new comprehensive database of registered medical doctors in India has gone live. The National Medical Register replaces the old Indian Medical Register (IMR). A unique feature of this online portal, according to a media release, is its ability to authenticate a doctor’s identity by linking with their Aadhaar ID. It has features for tracking
Dr. James Barr, vice president of physician value-based programs at Atlantic Health System and chief medical officer at Optimus Healthcare Partners, an accountable care organization within that health system, is very firm when it comes to artificial intelligence and how it is deployed: “Your reason to use AI tools can’t be just the need to
The Department of Health and Aged Care is launching a telehealth service for aged care residents as part of reform actions in the aged care sector. It recently issued a tender request for a supplier or a group of suppliers of a telehealth solution for delivering virtual nursing services to 30 unnamed residential aged care
According to a report issued by the National Center of Health Statistics, the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased by 6.9%. As virtual care numbers come back to earth, the industry is adjusting. As Amazon consolidated and repositioned its own telehealth offerings this summer, for instance, it announced $49
When CrowdStrike tried to parse a bad Falcon Suite configuration file pushed to millions of Windows machines this past July, the widespread crash took out the whole operating system and its applications – affecting countless machines across numerous industries around the world. The global IT outage caused widespread disruption of healthcare delivery, with many hospitals and
The overlapping imperatives of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity are becoming ever more important as the two become more intertwined across healthcare in some interesting and challenging ways. AI, for instance, is more and more being deployed as a critical frontline tool for risk detection and incident response, even as bad actors are also using machine
BOSTON – The ability to change how healthcare providers communicate with patients with artificial intelligence isn’t just about accuracy, transparency, fairness and data model maintenance, it’s figuring out how to meet personalization challenges. What patients want to know and when adds a larger degree of complexity – one that challenges the healthcare AI industry to consider
NZ to introduce new National Health Index format Te Whatu Ora is set to issue a new format for the National Health Index (NHI) from July 2026. The NHI provides a unique identifier to each New Zealand citizen from birth or their first health system interaction. From the AAA111# format, the NHI will transition to
BOSTON – After putting artificial intelligence into systems where nurses are used to working, Mercy has been able to realize $52 million in retaining talent and engaging its workforce, a 20% improvement in nurses’ electronic health records experiences and a 17% increase in nurse efficiency, the health system’s SVP Betty Jo Rocchio said Thursday at the
SDPR foundation developed The “landing zone” for the Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) in New South Wales has been set. According to eHealth NSW, the landing zone, developed with Epic and Amazon Web Services, is the “secure, scalable foundation” for managing and deploying the SDPR. The single EMR project is set to replace nine EMR platforms