Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced Friday that its Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot automates clinical documentation during patient appointments in Meditech Expanse electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS As a partner and a member of the Meditech Alliance Program, Nuance already supports the Expanse EHR with workflow assistance and documentation to help alleviate clinician burnout

Hong Kong-based Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), one of China’s national research institutes, has developed a large language model-based chatbot to assist doctors in making medical diagnoses and treatments. HOW IT WORKS The chatbot, CARES Copilot 1.0, is built based on Meta’s Llama 2 LLM. Trained using 100

ORLANDO – Oracle showcased several new products and innovation initiatives at HIMSS24 this past week, its second global conference since acquiring health IT giant Cerner in 2022.  We caught up with Seema Verma, the former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator who now serves as executive VP and general manager of Oracle Health and Oracle Life

For Community Medical Centers of Fresno, as with many other healthcare facilities, denials are a constant source of pain, and managing them is an ongoing struggle. THE PROBLEM In roughly the last 10 years, payers have increased their delay tactics – one method has been to do that with denials, said Eric Eckhart, director of

Meditech is one of the largest EHR and health IT players at HIMSS24 this week. This year, not surprisingly, its biggest focus is on artificial intelligence – the hottest topic in healthcare information technology. The company is announcing its early adopters for ambient listening integration into its Expanse EHR; new functionality around its conversational AI functionality;

This week at HIMSS24 saw the debut of the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network, or TRAIN, a network that aims to operationalize responsible AI principles to improve the quality, safety and trustworthiness of AI in healthcare. A new consortium of healthcare organizations is behind TRAIN. Members include AdventHealth, Advocate Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic

At HIMSS24, Mayo Clinic Platform has launched Solutions Studio, a new program designed to accelerate the development, validation and deployment of digital health systems and integrate them into healthcare workflows. The Solutions Studio program is meant to alleviate the high costs and complexities that digital health companies face in the commercialization process and help streamline

ORLANDO – It’s going to take more than tech-first approaches to achieve the quadruple aim, and despite intense focus on how to leverage and safeguard artificial intelligence to enhance care delivery – the topic du jour – AI is only one element of the digital health universe. “There is enormous promise from the digitization of

ORLANDO – During the HIMSS24 panel discussion “Securing the Modern Connected Hospital,” James Angle, product manager of information security at Trinity Health, and hacktivist for hire Kevin Johnson, chief executive officer at Secure Ideas, encouraged healthcare cybersecurity leaders to gain an edge on cyber adversaries that seek to compromise vulnerable medical devices by knowing when

Not-for-profit organisation Salveo Healthcare has recently introduced a remote patient monitoring technology from the United Kingdom to support its delivery of preventative care in Tasmania. In February, it started piloting Spirit Health’s Clinitouch technology as part of its in-home nursing care service, Advanced Preventative Care (APC). Delivered by registered and enrolled nurses, the service is