Exit strategies: From acquisitions to closing for good Over the years, food and beverage startups have increasingly turned to private-equity funding – where they offer an equity stake in their company in exchange – to fuel their business growth. In 2023, private-equity firms, which “rely very heavily on debt as part of their capital structure,” became more
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
This is a small sample of the recalled products. For a complete list of products use the link in the story. Hundreds of stores received more than 110 recalled products related to an outbreak of Listeria Monocytogenes linked to products from Rizo Lopez in Fresno, CA. The Food and Drug Administration has published a list
Norovirus caused the most foodborne outbreaks, but Salmonella was behind the largest, according to an analysis covering several years in Finland. In 2020 to 2022, there were 135 foodborne outbreaks included in a register maintained by the Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto). Overall, 2,543 people fell ill, 86 were hospitalized, and 15 died. A total of
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has been told by auditors to improve its oversight of food importers. The Auditor-General in New Zealand examined how well the MPI was monitoring importers of foods that pose a greater risk to consumers. Some of these high-risk foods, including frozen berries and tahini, have caused recalls and outbreaks in
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