The American Telemedicine Association held its 28th annual conference, ATA Nexus 2024, this past week in Phoenix. The goal was to gather innovators, changemakers and healthcare providers to lead efforts to improve access to quality care with telehealth and remote monitoring. The theme was “The Next Chapter in Virtual Care,” examining new realities, highlighting lessons
Health technology assessment (HTA) is a formidable task across drug development, medical device innovation, and digital health solutions. To help with this task, the European HTA Regulation entered into force in January 2022 and will apply in January 2025. For some medical device and pharmaceutical industry players, this is a heavily anticipated change, since at the moment, they
In November 2023, Healthcare IT News ran a success story highlighting Phoenix Children’s homegrown data warehouse and apps. But there’s more to the story, says Dr. Vinay Vaidya, the health system’s chief medical information officer. Vaidya says the key to the organization’s successful dashboards and apps development happened way on the front end of the
A new platform is being developed by several major universities with the aim of combating misinformation about healthcare and public health policies. It’s spearheaded by the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UC Davis’ Health Cloud Innovation Center and Amazon Web Services. The platform, called Project Heal, will use machine learning, generative artificial
Dr. Chevon Rariy is digitally transforming oncology care at her practice with virtual care, artificial intelligence-powered clinical decision support and other technologies, in part via an AI app called Marigold. Rariy is chief health officer and senior vice president of digital health at Oncology Care Partners,, an oncology group practice centered on value-based care. There
AI is playing an increasingly important role in the advancement of healthcare, with Australia’s health scene taking slow but steady steps to leverage this powerful new technology. In 2021, the Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare published a roadmap to provide guidance on how industry could leverage AI to be resilient and deliver safe, cost-effective
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. But to truly achieve those quality improvements – while tackling social determinant of health challenges and trimming costs – virtual care
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is rolling out Microsoft subsidiary Nuance Communications’ Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot across its seven-state footprint, the health system announced. WHY IT MATTERS The aim is to leverage DAX’s automation capabilities to drive operational efficiencies in clinical documentation and administrative tasks, thereby reducing the burden on healthcare professionals. DAX captures multiparty
On Friday, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services launched an incident-command system designed to better coordinate care response in the wake of Steward Health Care filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and be the primary point of communication with healthcare organizations, first responders and others in the region. WHY IT MATTERS Dr. Gregg Meyer, senior
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It was built from the ground up with the very latest healthcare information technology. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. It cost more than $2 billion. It is 19 stories tall, with nearly