Through a partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, HunterCare is deploying telehealth technology to all Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Oklahoma.  Under a funding mandate from Oklahoma Senate Bill 7, the state’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse distributed more than 30,000 iPads statewide from the MyCare

While many health practitioners in Australia are now using digital records, they have yet to realise its benefits. Despite significant investment, My Health Record, Australia’s digital health records system, “continues to be plagued by incomplete records and poor usability,” a new Productivity Commission report noted. Since the use of the MHR is not mandatory for

Genome Medical is making genetics care accessible and actionable for patients through seven-day-a-week access to genetic services. By partnering with health systems, molecular testing laboratories and life sciences organizations, Genome Medical is expanding the practice and impact of genomic medicine to improve patient care. One such example of how it does this is by supporting

During the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of drugs, biologics and medical devices on Wednesday, representatives fired questions at FDA directors.  The lawmakers said they were aiming to examine how FDA rules bar doctors and patients from accessing tests that would need to undergo lengthy

Over the course of the pandemic, demand for behavioral health services increased dramatically in the communities served by Geisinger, the Danville, Pennsylvania-based health system. With a large patient population in rural areas, Geisinger expanded its use of telemedicine to scale access and leverage a national workforce to serve them. Today, Geisinger Behavioral Health serves more

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.  A news report recently revealed that one in four

Atlanta-based Wellstar Health announced this week that it is deploying technology from Clear, the biometric security company best known for enabling faster access at airports and entertainment venues in order to streamline patient check-in. Clear’s HIPAA-compliant mobile check-in technology, which is successfully integrated with its Epic electronic health records at a pilot location, gives Wellstar

Editor’s Note: This is part two of our interview with Craig Kwiatkowski. To read part one, click here. Cedars-Sinai, the prominent California health system, has a variety of artificial intelligence programs either deployed or in the works. It’s ahead of the game in the field of healthcare AI. Craig Kwiatkowski is chief information officer at

National University Hospital testing Alzheimer’s predictive AI from Korea Singapore’s National University Hospital is collaborating with medical AI company Heuron from South Korea to test the latter’s AI solutions for screening and predicting Alzheimer’s disease.  Heuron delivered its two solutions: Heuron AD, which provides quantitative analysis on brain atrophy, and Heuron Brain PET, which provides

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced a new funding commitment designed to improve hospital cyber resiliency. The new National Institutes of Health initiative, Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense, or UPGRADE, will invest more than $50 million for the development of tools that protect hospital operations, keep medical devices