How advanced analytics can help solve SDOH problems
The pandemic has shined a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care. However, many in health IT contend healthcare provider… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs in Saudi Arabia receives Stage 7 INFRAM
Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs – King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh in Saudi Arabia has been successfully validated at Stage 7 on the INFRAM by HIMSS. The INFRAM, or Infrastructure Adoption Model, helps healthcare leaders assess and map healthcare infrastructure and the associated… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Spotting bias in AI requires a holistic approach, says study
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital say that spotting bias in artificial intelligence and machine learning requires a holistic evaluation – and that models can be biased against certain groups while simultaneously performing better for others. “Despite the eminent work in other… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Nuance, Health Management Academy launch artificial intelligence collaborative
Toward the goal of enabling more “efficient, responsible and future-focused” deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning across healthcare, Nuance this week announced that it’s joining with The Health Management Academy to co-found an initiative designed optimize AI deployments… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Allscripts CEO Paul Black departs company
Paul Black, who has been chief executive officer at Allscripts since 2012, announced this week that he would be stepping down, effective Friday. In a quarterly earnings call Thursday, Black pointed to Allscripts’ focus on its Veradigm’s analytics and intervention portfolio as evidence of the… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Roundup: MedTech Europe welcomes European Health Data Space, AI detects interval breast cancers, and more briefs
MedTech Europe welcomes launch of European Health Data Space The European Commission this week launched the European Health Data Space (EHDS), which will allow citizens to access their health data in any EU member state. MedTech Europe CEO Serge Bernasconi, said: “To be successful, the… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
EHR study finds wearing dentures could hurt overall nutrition
A new study from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Dentistry found that people with dentures experienced a decline in certain nutrition markers over two years. The research, recently published in the Journal of Prosthodontics, linked dental records with the lab… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
NT Health extends clinical decision support contract with Alcidion
NT Health has signed a contract with listed health tech firm Alcidion to upgrade to the latest Miya Precision clinical decision support platform. The department, which runs five public hospitals and community and remote health centres serving over 200,000 people, has been one of the early… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Northwell Health, Aegis Ventures enter joint venture to launch healthcare AI companies
Northwell Health is working with Aegis Ventures, a New York-based startup studio to launch Ascertain, a joint company creation platform. WHY IT MATTERSWith Ascertain, Northwell and Aegis plan to develop and commercialize artificial intelligence companies to tackle various healthcare challenges… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
VIRTUAL TOUR: Inside the digital transformation journey of Capital Health
Having been running for just over three years, Abu Dhabi’s Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH) is considered one of the most advanced in its field in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). But being newly established doesn’t mean that its team has been taking digital transformation and the… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More