Artificial intelligence (AI) and wearables have seen an uptick in interest from the healthcare sector in recent years. With the rise in demand for telemental healthcare during the pandemic, the push for digital transformation in mental...
Primary care is an essential facet of modern healthcare, serving as the conduit through which many patients access and engage with available medical care services. When a patient has a non-emergency health concern, a primary care physician...
In the US, access to and quality of healthcare are major drivers of health disparities and widening patient care gaps. Bridging care gaps also requires providers to have access to knowledge and resources to support these efforts, which can...
As efforts to reduce and eventually eliminate cancer, such as President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot, gain traction, providers are tasked with finding ways to improve cancer care delivery and research. As a result, the healthcare industry...
In the wake of the recent baby formula shortage, parents and providers are becoming increasingly interested in other methods for providing adequate nutrition to infants who may need it. Breast milk donation banks have long played a role in...
Data analytics and interoperability are necessary for health systems to provide high-quality care services to patients, but transitioning from pen, paper, and fax machines to computers and the cloud for data collection and sharing is only...
Loneliness and social isolation rose alarmingly during the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdowns proliferated and in-person gatherings were discouraged.
A critical social determinant of health (SDOH), social isolation is estimated to have...
An evidence-based AI development and deployment approach could address systemic issues and help standardize AI practices in healthcare.
"We need a movement for the health AI industry that is analogous to the evidence-based medicine...
Responsible, secure, and ethical artificial intelligence (AI) deployment in healthcare requires an informed, multi-disciplinary, and collaborative approach. But a lack of industry standards and consensus on how to responsibly deploy AI...
Last year, Franciscan Health, a 14-hospital system with facilities in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan partnered with Innovaccer to create unified patient records to support whole-person care.
Whole-person care is a strategy that allows...
As the United States continues to see high rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations, providers must make difficult decisions regarding allocating medical resources to patients who may need them most. While physicians can speculate about an...
To deliver quality care and positive patient outcomes, researchers and clinicians need comprehensive patient data and medical literature.
However, since 80 percent of essential data lies in...
In 2021, Nemours Children’s Health, a pediatric health system in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida, took steps to improve its data analytics and value-based...
Organizations are constantly looking for ways to enhance treatment and patient experience. By incorporating National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines and precision medicine, CVS Health is working to improve cancer patient...
As providers continue to target improved patient outcomes, more organizations are utilizing artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning. However, organizations should follow ethical standards to ensure positive results...
As electronic health records continue to grow in healthcare, scientists must have a uniform set of recommendations to conduct research and analyze data.
In a collaborative effort, the University of California, Irvine School of Pharmacy...
While many risk factors patients face concerning their health are due to genetics, researchers suggest that social determinants of health could also play a role in risk prediction.
In a recent study,...
As artificial intelligence capabilities in healthcare continue to advance, regulations and policies need to be put in place to ensure health equality when exploring this new method.
This past June,...
Dayton Children’s Health Partners (DCHP) partnered with Innovaccer to get assistance creating a data aggregation platform to streamline efficiency and improve patient outcomes.
DCHP is a...
To advance their precision medicine research, Washington University School of Medicine has adopted artificial intelligence-based natural language processing tools to assist in sorting their...