Most in the healthcare industry would say provider organizations have an obligation to offer better care to underserved populations. The question is how. Dr. Graham Gardner is a cardiologist, and the CEO and cofounder of Kyruus, a healthcare provider data management and patient engagement technology vendor. He has had a long career on the healthcare provider and

Researchers from OSF Healthcare and its partners have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can predict the upcoming week’s work for each cancer patient navigator for their existing patients. They have also created a second machine learning model that distributes new patients among the navigators within specialties to better balance workloads. WHY IT MATTERS Patient navigators

As the new National Health Service England chief information officer, John Quinn will run and be tasked with innovating the NHS’s critical technical infrastructure and managing cybersecurity for national services. WHY IT MATTERS Quinn previously spent eight years in leadership roles at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and was MHRA’s executive director for

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S. say their healthcare providers currently use AI to help diagnose

Amazon Clinic, with subscription-based telehealth services in 33 states, appears to be holding off on a promotional campaign announcing its nationwide expansion that was reportedly planned to launch today because of a letter asking about the telemedicine platform’s patient privacy protections from Senators Peter Welch, D-Vermont, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts.  WHY IT MATTERS Politico reported this past

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. Then COVID-19 hit. That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. THE PROBLEM In the year after COVID-19 struck, healthcare changed.

Dr. R. Dirk Stanley, chief medical information officer at UConn Health, a five-hospital health system based in Farmington, Connecticut, is not the only clinician to complain about workflow problems. But he’s one that’s been doing something about it. In his role as CMIO, Stanley and his team have redesigned UConn’s clinical workflows to better serve

Iodine Software, a developer of clinical documentation improvement tools, announced this week it will gain access to OpenAI’s artificial intelligence technologies, including the GPT-4 large language model, through an expanded collaboration. WHY IT MATTERS Iodine says it plans to integrate OpenAI’s LLMs across AwareCDI products to improve prediction accuracy, streamline query processes and develop clinical

The Singapore General Hospital has deployed a predictive AI tool that helps check a patient’s fitness for surgery.  Dubbed CARES-ML (Combined Assessment of Risk Encountered in Surgery-Machine Learning), the predictive tool generates a surgery risk report and score using a patient’s medical history, physical status classification, and investigative test results, including x-rays and blood tests. It

A single integrated e-referrals system is now live across Tasmania’s four major hospitals while a similar system is about to be launched across South Australia.  In a media release, Tasmanian Premier and Minister for Health Jeremy Rockliff said the statewide system has reached a milestone of facilitating about 10,000 e-referrals from GPs to public outpatient services