The American Medical Association this week announced the nine new healthcare organizations who will split nearly $600,000 as part of its Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program.  WHY IT MATTERS This batch of grant recipients will divvy up some $589,000 from AMA as they research the trends and patterns of how their physicians and nurses

A lot of people today are having troubles trusting artificial intelligence not to become sentient and take over the world à la “The Terminator.” For the time being in healthcare, one of the big questions for clinicians is: Can I trust AI to help me make decisions about patients? Today’s podcast seeks to provide some answers with

A new collaboration announced this week between Zocdoc and Elation Health aims to help physician practices and other providers using Elation’s electronic health records reach new patients on the Zocdoc marketplace and reduce administrative burden. WHY IT MATTERS Through the new partnership, providers’ existing scheduling software integrates with Zocdoc, automatically adding appointments booked online to

There’s a lot of buzz around the potential of artificial intelligence to transform care delivery. New technologies offer advanced capabilities for ensuring the right patients receive the right care at the right time – while lifting clinicians’ administrative burden. But what do physicians and clinicians think about the power of AI to change healthcare and

Starting with electrocardiogram algorithms used in healthcare settings, Dandelion Health will run algorithms on its dataset – which spans 10 million patients – to measure the performance and bias of artificial intelligence across key racial, ethnic and geographic subgroups. WHY IT MATTERS Dandelion is aggregating and de-identifying clinical data through its consortium of three major

More governments, territories and healthcare organizations are establishing health information exchanges to enable faster and more seamless sharing of health data among doctors’ offices, hospitals, federally qualified health centers, state agencies, public health clinics, labs and community-based organizations. HIEs have been growing across states or regions as community health centers, health systems, behavioral health organizations, correctional health

The National Cancer Centre Singapore, a specialty centre under SingHealth, has started implementing an oncology EMR solution by Altera Digital Health. Called Sunrise Oncology, the solution provides a range of clinician tools, including decision support at the point of clinical prescribing and treatment regimens with real-time analysis of efficacy, toxicities, and outcomes.  THE LARGER TREND

UNC Health, participating in Epic’s generative artificial intelligence program that utilizes Microsoft Azure, will begin rolling out its internal chatbot tool with a small group of clinicians and administrators. It plans to offer the tool more broadly later this year. WHY IT MATTERS The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based health system announced its first AI-powered app

Eighty percent of providers using telehealth in Virginia have seen improvements in their patients’ continuity of care, and 87% feel confident in the quality of care they’re able to offer patients via telehealth, according to a new survey conducted by the Virginia Telehealth Network of more than 10,500 active license healthcare professionals throughout the state.

The first proof-of-concept pilot study with a limited-lead, rapid-response electroencephalogram medical device, which measures the electrical activity of the brain, and Vision Transformer, a supervised deep learning method, detected changes associated with delirium before the onset of symptoms – when patients are more receptive to treatment. WHY IT MATTERS According to the study by lead