The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of July 1, is designed to offer updated and more streamlined standards to help organizations offering telehealth services put structures and processes in place to help deliver safer and higher-quality

San Francisco-based Augmedix has launched what it says is the first fully-automated, generative AI-powered medical documentation software for emergency departments, and it’s already in use at one of the biggest health systems in the country. Known as Augmedix Go, the ambient documentation tool for EDs leverages automatic speech recognition and natural language processing. It was

National University Health System’s flagship hospital National University Hospital (NUH) is building a new institution focused on enhancing the detection and diagnosis of digestive illnesses through AI and other advanced technologies. Envisioned to be a one-stop centre for gastroenterology and hepatology services, the National University Centre for Digestive Health is touted to be the first

At HIMSS24 this past month, a new consortium of healthcare leaders announced the creation of the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network, or TRAIN, which aims to operationalize responsible AI principles to improve the quality, safety and trustworthiness of AI in health. Members of the network include AdventHealth, Advocate Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, Duke

At its first-ever Health Summit in Nashville on Tuesday, Oracle announced a new cybersecurity-focused service for its healthcare customers, Autonomous Shield. WHY IT MATTERS The launch of the new Autonomous Shield Initiative is meant to help clients migrate to a comprehensive electronic health record and cloud infrastructure that can reduce cyber risk, according to the

While healthcare organizations depend on network-connected devices for patient care and to improve healthcare delivery, cybercriminals have made them an important entry point for attacks, and they are still unprepared for the scope of cyber threats.  We asked Tyler Reguly, senior manager of security research and development at Fortra, how healthcare IT can improve device management

European countries are struggling with workforce shortages in healthcare. Christine Antorini, the former CEO of Life Foundation, a Danish non-profit focussed on education, and a member of several boards, made headlines when she left her leadership position to pursue nursing in 2023. Her decision drew a mixed reaction: While she received support and admiration on

Catholic-run Mercy Health is piloting a role-based messaging platform in two of its hospitals in Victoria. In a statement, the healthcare provider said it will roll out Baret, a mobile application on Microsoft Teams developed by FiveP. The messaging solution enables closed-loop, structured communications among hospital staff. WHY IT MATTERS Dr Oliver Daly, medical services director at one

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals. In the Netherlands, Germany