The number of people sick has gone up in Denmark, but the number of outbreaks remained stable in 2022, according to recently released data. In 2022, there were 5,142 cases of Campylobacter and 899 cases of Salmonella, compared to 3,740 and 692 in 2021. Of Campylobacter and Salmonella cases in the past year, 28 percent
The head of the Food and Drug Administration says his evolving plan to restructure the food side of the agency is moving forward with changes planned for regulatory affairs, but two key observers say the movement falls short of necessary steps to ensure the effectiveness of the reorganization. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf this afternoon announced
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
Panamerican Foods, LLC, a distributor and importer of record located in Kearny, NJ., late Friday recalled approximately 4,978 pounds of the pork and beef bean stew products that were imported from Brazil that were not eligible for export of meat products to the United States, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
House of Raeford in Nesmith, SC, late Friday recalled approximately 76,961 pounds of corn dog products due to possible spoilage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. The spoilage was discovered after the firm notified FSIS that it received consumer complaints that the product had an odor, off appearance, and
Ferrero has informed Belgian authorities that it has found Salmonella at the site that was behind a major outbreak in 2022. The confectionery company notified the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) of the Salmonella detection in the environment of the Arlon factory. It is not clear when the Salmonella positive