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