The healthcare industry is facing a critical shortage of skilled nuclear radiologists, threatening timely cancer treatment and care. With only 53% of training programs at full enrollment, innovative solutions are needed to address the staffing crisis. Teleradiology can help, as it enables nuclear radiologists to interpret scans remotely, increase flexibility in their work schedules and
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center issued a threat alert Friday about the Russia-backed ransomware group Black Basta, warning of its accelerated attempted attacks against the healthcare sector. Prompted by H-ISAC, the American Hospital Association also sent a cybersecurity advisory with technical mitigation recommendations to its members. The alerts come in the wake of a major cyberattack impacting
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is offering new money for innovations around AI data quality and technology adoption for behavioral health. WHY IT MATTERS In a new special emphasis notice under its ongoing Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health IT initiative, ONC says it’s offering funding for fiscal year 2024, seeking
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