As the nursing shortage continues to stretch hospitals and health systems thin, some IT leaders have begun working with generative AI to see whether it can help reduce administrative burden on nurses, free them up to spend more time with patients and help ease the nursing shortage. Jill M. Lashay is a healthcare attorney at

The University of California San Francisco, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the California Health Care Foundation and ScaleHealth developed a survey to learn about application programming interface integrations, barriers faced during API integration and API-relevant policy efforts. WHY IT MATTERS ONC indicated in a HealthIT Buzz blog on Thursday that the study published in JAMIA last month

Te Toka Tumai Auckland launching FHIR-driven PAS Te Toka Tumai Auckland, formerly Auckland District Health Board, will be launching a new patient administration system that runs on the new FHIR-based National Health Index API. InterSystems, who is delivering the PAS, is reportedly an early user of the NHI API being developed through Te Whatu Ora’s Hira programme. 

The All India Institute Of Medical Science in New Delhi recently unveiled its new AI solution that assists with the early detection of cancer.  Developed with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the AI system runs on deep learning models capable of analysing complex medical data with “unprecedented

There’s been a flurry of attention around a new study in Frontiers in Neurology validating that the Brain Care Score, or BCS, may help in assessing one’s risk of developing dementia or having a stroke as they age. But what happens next? Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, a practicing neurologist, chief medical officer and cofounder of Linus

In an announcement on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital website, inbound and outbound e-mail to and from external e-mail addresses have been restored as well as most of the phone lines after the hospital, part of Northwestern University, took down its communications systems following a cybersecurity matter. WHY IT MATTERS Lurie Children’s, which said

New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health – with more than 450 providers at more than 50 locations across southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island – faces the same challenges as other health systems and IDNs: the need to build its patient base, drive growth, increase revenue and control costs – all while delivering high-quality care and top

Epic, as always, will have a sizable presence at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition. The electronic health record developer often leads the way when it comes to innovation, and CIOs and other health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems of all stripes keep their eyes on what the vendor will do next. Healthcare IT

State and local health information exchanges that agree to a public health use case with eHealth Exchange or the new Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement program by April 30 will have three years of annual fees waived. The Qualified Health Information Network is pushing for more public

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has partnered with Vital to integrate an artificial intelligence-driven tool called ERAdvisor that can improve the patient-family experience with clarity and predictability. WHY IT MATTERS Closing the gap between clinical documentation and clarity with plain-language test results and predictable wait times may ease the strain on patients and their families at