Cognitive neuroscience researchers and clinicians had been encountering significant challenges in effectively addressing social skills development among individuals dealing with mental health conditions or neurodevelopmental disorders. THE PROBLEM Traditional approaches often lacked engagement and real-world applicability, making it difficult for individuals to generalize skills learned in therapy sessions to everyday social interactions. As a result

AtlantiCare has announced a partnership with Oracle Health designed to provide the health system with command center infrastructure, including a new generative artificial intelligence-based clinical digital assistant, according to AtlantiCare’s announcement Wednesday. The new genAI CDA will enable clinicians to use voice commands to reduce time “on the computer” and focus more on patient interactions, while

The National Academy of Medicine has issued a landscape review, code principles and commitments saying accurate, safe, reliable and ethical AI transformation in healthcare and biomedical science is achievable. Based on the Leadership Consortium’s Learning Health System Core Principles, an initiative the academy has spearheaded since 2006, the organization said its new draft framework promotes

Between the medical device vulnerabilities and cybersecurity challenges discussed in news this week, it’s clear hospitals and health systems across healthcare have their work cut out to shore up their defenses and stay in business. On one front, the Diligent Institute and Bitsight looked at the cybersecurity ratings of thousands of midsize-to-large companies trading globally

Healthcare information technology is quite complex. The process for evaluating vendors is nuanced and hinges on simplicity, alignment and risk sharing, said Craig Richardville, chief digital and information officer at Intermountain Healthcare. More than just contracting for a product, healthcare CIOs should be focused on choosing “partners” that help organizations find tools that simplify work

Atlantic Health System will deploy the artificial intelligence-based precision population health platform of vendor FeelBetter to optimize medication management for polypharmacy patients at three accountable care organizations. WHY IT MATTERS The Boston- and Tel Aviv-based machine learning technology company offers providers a tool that can alert them to patients at high risk of deterioration and

Adopting a collaborative model of care is one approach that can help temper the rising cost of healthcare globally. Island Hospital, a private quaternary hospital in Malaysia, is providing a case for this by building an integrated health ecosystem that fosters cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders.  “Collaborative models allow healthcare providers to reach a broader population

Senators Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) announced Friday that they wrote to UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty asking a series of questions relating to what they called UHG’s lack of “sufficient redundancy to prevent an outage,” a timeline of events relating to the February 21 ransomware attack and how UHG is

Northwestern Ontario covers a geographical area the size of France, but is sparsely populated, having only around 230,000 residents. THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it’s very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to

A single pain point which hinders Australian healthcare’s progress in digital transformation is cybersecurity.  In recent years, Australia has made serious efforts to develop the digital capabilities of its health system, including making multi-year investments and creating a national strategy, a blueprint and an action plan. It is working towards its vision of “trusted, timely