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
Changes to consumer behavior, regulation, and resource issues are factors impacting food safety, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Katie Pettifer, strategy and regulatory compliance director at the FSA, recently said change is becoming a theme after speaking at the event last year on how constant change was the new normal. “The first change
By News Desk on July 6, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Click here to
The Scottish Food Crime and Incidents Unit (SCFCIU) has secured its first major conviction since the agency was created in 2015. Food Standards Scotland (FSS) welcomed the sentencing of Jamie George, who supplied the public with a potentially fatal substance sold as a diet pill for weight loss. The 32-year-old was sentenced at Stirling Sheriff
Pi’ara Functional Foods Ltd. is recalling Haskalife brand Pure Haskap Berry Super Shots over possible spoilage. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the recalled product has been sold in Alberta, Canada, and online. Recalled products: BrandProductSizeCodesUPCHaskalifePure Haskap Berry Super Shots60 ml23 JN 226 27987 76714 8 Consumption of food contaminated with spoilage organisms can
Food safety-conscious consumers want a “Made in the USA” label they can trust, according to survey research conducted during the past decade. But for beef and pork products, it’s not possible to trust statements about the origin because the Mandatory Country of Origin Law (MCOOL) was repealed by Congress in 2016. The Billings, MT-based Ranchers