Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences. Moreover, these at-home and remote patient monitoring technologies can optimize resource utilization

Working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Mynd Immersive – a technology company that specializes in extended reality therapies for aging adults – will collaborate with VA Immersive, part of the VA’s Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning, to address the psychological wellbeing of Vietnam veterans.  WHY IT MATTERS The company said the three-year

Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi from Thailand has been validated for Stage 7 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures the clinical outcomes, patient engagement, and clinician use of EMR technology in a hospital or health facility. WHO THEY ARE Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi is part of the Principle Healthcare Group, a local operator of

The National Institutes of Health’s electronic health record, the Clinical Research Information System, was first purpose-built 20 years ago for the nation’s largest research hospital. It will be soon replaced, said Jon McKeeby, chief information officer at NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. WHY IT MATTERS According to Federal News Network, during a panel session

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. It does not require physical contact between caregiver and patient (though seeing a patient’s affect in person can be better than via video). Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Taking vitals is not necessary. Overall, it’s a great fit –

Attendees at HIMSS24 will be looking at the emergence of artificial intelligence in healthcare from every angle. Ram Rimal, manager of data science, AI and research for UNC Healthcare and Mike Plesh, executive director of information technology for UNC Health, will get down to brass tacks on how to ramp up health system AI in

Seoul National University Hospital has been designated as a national strategic technology-specialised research institute by the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare.  As such, it is expected to lead the country’s effort to promote national strategic technologies as mandated by the National Strategic Technology Promotion Act, which was passed in February last year.  It

It may seem obvious that patients’ medication records should be accessible to their doctors, but that’s not always the case. While technology has made it possible for hospitals to amass a mountain of patient data, hospitals can work on better making that information easily available to clinicians at the time of treatment. THE PROBLEM “Sharing

ECRI, the patient safety organization, has published its annual list of the 10 health technology hazards it’s watching in 2024. WHY IT MATTERS As part of its safety-focused mission, the nonprofit ECRI conducts independent evaluations of medical devices – and potential risks related to at-home use of devices, by patients and their caregivers alike, top

Doctors and researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the UMD Institute for Health Computing and the VA Maryland Healthcare System are concerned that large language models summarizing clinical data could meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s device-exemption criteria and could cause patient harm. WHY IT MATTERS Artificial intelligence that summarizes clinical