EClinicalWorks, a cloud-based vendor of electronic health record and practice management systems for small clinics, hospitals and large health systems, will have a large presence at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition. Healthcare IT News sat down with Sameer Bhat, vice president of sales and co-founder of eClinicalWorks, to learn all about the algorithmic workflow process
Artificial Intelligence foundation models are evolving rapidly throughout the healthcare ecosystem. System integration plays an indispensable role in ensuring using generative AI results in safety, security and trustworthiness. Further, having a domain-specific AI model integrate effectively and responsibly with the broader healthcare system is a critical element of ensuring a trusted AI environment. Srini Iyer
Some 93% of physicians feel burned out, but 83% said AI has the potential to reduce administrative burdens, according to athenahealth’s third Physician Sentiment Survey, conducted by the Harris Poll. For this year’s measurement of physician sentiments, atheneahealth added a new line of questioning focused on artificial intelligence in its survey of 1,003 primary care
St Vincent’s Health is set to adopt a single cloud-hosted EMR system for its private hospitals in Australia. It recently announced in a media release that it awarded a contract to US-based MEDITECH to implement the Expanse EMR across its 10 private hospitals in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. It will be deployed through
China Medical University Hospital is leveraging Google Cloud’s generative AI to support its doctors in providing cancer care. A formal collaboration between CMUH and Google Cloud was signed in December last year to use MedLM, a healthcare-specific gen AI based on the large language model, Med-PaLM 2. MedLM, which intelligence has been proven comparable to
Living with diabetes is challenging. So is treating it, with a myriad of factors determining or influencing a person’s health. THE PROBLEM In addition, those living with diabetes must take care of themselves by performing daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly tasks to stay ahead of the chronic condition. These include: Checking their feet Reading food
New Zealand’s new administration is seeking fewer ICT systems for health while augmenting its capabilities in data and technology to cater to new models of care. These are some of the immediate priority actions Te Whatu Ora outlined in their briefing to Health Minister Dr Shane Reti in November, which was recently released to the public. According
By 2030, all Baby Boomers will be over 65 – all as alternative care models emerge. McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Instead of thinking of patients as “discharged” once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many
Even in regions where healthcare delivery mechanisms are abundant, demand can be overwhelming, and other healthcare operational challenges can interfere with patient outcomes. As the digital transformation in healthcare lags behind other industries, and value-based care drives provider efficiencies, while the government invests in healthcare cost reduction and access measures, health tech is positively overripe
In a statement to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs, the VA’s Office of Inspector General reported that if veterans have had treatment at one of five sites using the department’s Oracle Health electronic health record and then follow up at a site on the legacy Vista EHR, their medication information may