Nurses feel “empowered” with an integrated patient discharge analytics technology that leverages artificial intelligence to analyze administrative tasks, such as discharge coordination, test ordering and prescriptions, says Jean Halpin, chief operating officer at Grant Medical Center. It’s been shown recently that many nurses are distrustful of AI. But at the Central Ohio-based health system, nurses are

Palo Alto, California-based Stanford Health Care is often ahead of the curve when it comes to technology innovation. As a result, health IT leaders at provider organizations across the country can look to Stanford for lessons to be learned. That is the goal of a case study educational session the health system will be leading

HealthEquity, a provider of health savings accounts, announced the personal and health information of 4.3 million individuals was compromised in a data breach involving an unnamed third-party vendor. WHY IT MATTERS The breach apparently occurred in March and was not discovered until June 26, leaving hackers more than three months inside the network, the company

Catholic Medical Center, a hospital network in South Korea, has recently undergone digital health assessments to measure the baseline maturity of its hospitals.  Widely adopted digital health assessment tools from HIMSS were applied, namely the Digital Health Indicator (DHI), Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), and Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM).  The DHI measures an organisation’s

A cloud-based analytics platform for Singapore’s public healthcare sector has been recently unveiled. In June, Synapxe, the country’s national healthtech agency, started onboarding hospitals and health facilities into the platform called HEALIX (Health Empowerment thru Advanced Learning & Intelligent eXchange).  WHAT IT’S ABOUT A first of such in Singapore, HEALIX is designed to be a

Orchid, a behavioral health electronic health record vendor, has developed what it says is the first artificial intelligence-enabled scribe to aid overloaded mental health providers and help patients get care faster. With help from its automated clinical note-taking, mental and behavioral health providers that have been testing it are saving hours of documentation time and

Community care partners of the National Healthcare Group in Singapore have been provided access to a digital platform for managing health programmes and potentially creating digital records. WHAT IT’S ABOUT  Recently, the NHG partnered with credentials platform provider, Accredify, to develop the NHG Cares Partners Portal.  According to a press statement, the portal simplifies the

All correctional settings in New South Wales now have access to virtual care services. The Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network has worked with Corrective Services NSW, Youth Justice NSW, and local health districts to roll out virtual care across prisons, courts, and youth justice centres in the state.  Based on a media release

Baptist Health South Florida operates a network of 11 hospitals covering four counties. It also includes numerous ambulatory facilities, urgent care centers and emergency departments to provide comprehensive healthcare services across the region. And its Population Health Service  Organization focuses on improving the health outcomes of a specific population by coordinating and integrating healthcare services

A new partnership aims bring sustainability and innovation to providers in systemically underserved communities and safety net organizations. OCHIN, which partners with national provider networks and boasts the largest collection of community health data in the country, and OSIS, which says it represents the nation’s largest network of NextGen Health Centers, will collaborate to bring