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

Victorian public health service Monash Health has recently disclosed that it has been affected by the recent hacking of ZircoDATA. In February, ZircoDATA, which provides secure document storage, information governance, digital conversion, and destruction for 9,000 clients across Australia, reported a breach in its system. The Victoria-based company also handles some of Monash Health’s archived historical

CU Medicine develops severe hypoglycemia predictive AI  Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) have utilised anonymised big data from the Hospital Authority Data Collaboration Laboratory to develop a new machine learning model that can predict the risk of severe hypoglycemia among older diabetic adults. They analysed

Researchers from the University of Westminster; Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and Positive East looked at resources from the UK’s National Health Service and the World Health Organization to develop their community-driven approach for increasing inclusivity, acceptability and engagement with artificial intelligence chatbots. WHY IT MATTERS Aiming to identify activities that reduce bias in conversational

Joncé Smith, senior executive strategic advisory consultant at Stoltenberg Consulting, has more than 35 years of healthcare experience. She has a long track record of working with many healthcare provider models and in many different settings: government, non-profit, academic, for-profit and accountable care organizations and more. Her deep expertise includes hospital revenue cycle optimization, IT

As part of NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise software available on AWS Marketplace, developers will gain access to an expanding AI model library through standard APIs. This integration with Amazon SageMaker and AWS ParallelCluster is designed to streamline deployment and management of machine learning models and high-performance computing clusters on AWS. Additionally, NIMs can be orchestrated using

While telehealth alone doesn’t appear to add significantly to a primary care physician’s workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. WHY IT MATTERS These were among the results of an April study by MedStar Health

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang.  He acknowledged that the absence of multifactor authentication on a legacy server provided the cybercriminals with their successful attack vector.  And