Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1
Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Walmart to offer AI-enabled provider recs to some workers
Walmart announced this week that it had partnered with Health at Scale, a San Jose, California-based company that uses predictive artificial intelligence to help guide patients to providers based on their health needs. According to the vendor, the new software will provide personalized… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Juniper deploys AI to strengthen the healthcare WAN for digital transformation
As the pace of digital transformation increases, healthcare organisations are more dependent than ever on the integrity of their networks. Clinicians need secure, 24-hour access to systems, services and information to provide the quality of care and treatment expected from today’s healthcare… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Cloud EHR giant athenahealth offers a sneak peek at its HIMSS22 strategy
Cloud-based health IT vendor athenahealth is among the giants in the field of electronic health records, the lynchpin system in healthcare information technology. It concentrates on the ambulatory market. The vendor will be exhibiting at the HIMSS22 Conference & Exhibition in March and has a lot… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Intermountain, University of Utah scientists use AI to predict heart health
Researchers from the University of Utah and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital recently developed artificial intelligence tools to help predict the onset and outcomes of cardiovascular disease. In a study published this week in PLOS Digital Health, the scientists explained that they used… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
AI-powered RPM can help address the rural neonatal care crisis
As hospital consolidation continues nationwide, rural areas are beginning to take a new shape – and it is not a pretty picture. According to a recent study from Health Affairs, newly squired rural hospitals are eliminating surgical care services and mental health treatment access, despite a… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Racial and ethnic bias pervasive in EHR notes, UChicago study shows
A study published in Health Affairs this week used machine learning to investigate whether providers’ negative patient descriptors in electronic health records varied by race or ethnicity. Compared with white patients, Black patients had more than 2.5 the odds of having at least one negative… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
SingHealth Duke-NUS opens latest healthcare training simulation facility
Singapore Health Services and Duke-National University of Singapore have launched a new simulation facility for training healthcare professionals. Located at the Academia in Singapore General Hospital, the SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Medical Simulation (SIMS) i3 Hub is equipped with a… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
BioNTech and InstaDeep join forces to predict high-risk COVID variants
German biotech firm BioNTech and UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) specialists InstaDeep have partnered to develop an early warning system (EWS) for dangerous new COVID-19 variants. The new computational method combines structural modelling of the viral Spike protein and AI algorithms to… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Digital healthcare’s personalized, data-driven future
In summer 2021, patient engagement technology company, Twistle, joined forces with healthcare data and analytics company, Health Catalyst. Matt Revis, Chief Operating Officer of Twistle by Health Catalyst, joins the podcast to touch on the opportunity for data-driven patient engagement to… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
