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MT Health System Implements Cloud Platform to Unify EHR Data

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Montana-based nonprofit health system St. Peter’s Health is partnering with San Francisco-based healthcare technology company Innovaccer to integrate the company’s healthcare cloud platform...

Decentralized AI Connects Globally Distributed, Poor-Quality Medical Data

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A new study published in Scientific Reports shows that a federated learning algorithm designed to train artificial intelligence (AI) on globally distributed, decentralized, and poor-quality medical...

AI Approach Offers Higher Rate of Diabetes Remission Than Standard Care

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Use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool has shown the highest reported rate of type 2 diabetes remission to date, according to research presented at the 82nd Scientific Sessions of the American...

SNOMED Strikes Partnership to Support Healthcare Research Opportunities

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SNOMED International announced a five-year partnership with the non-profit global research collaborative Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) to open new opportunities for...

Healthcare Orgs Report Improved Processes, Patient Experience with AWS

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A new report from KLAS Research found that a majority of healthcare organizations reported better and faster processes, improved clinician and patient experience, and reduced costs while using Amazon...

Experts Call for Real-Time, Comprehensive Data to Address Opioid Crisis

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Researchers argue that current issues around opioid overdose data prevent public health officials from getting a clear picture of the opioid crisis, leading them to fight the epidemic...

Maryland Implements New eCQM Data Reporting Initiative

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Maryland has partnered with its state-designated health information exchange (HIE), called CRISP, and healthcare data management company Medisolv to implement an initiative that would require all...

Parents Largely Comfortable with Artificial Intelligence Use in Pediatric Care

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Despite a slight inconsistency in satisfaction rates among different ethnic groups, a study from Academic Pediatrics reported a relatively high rate of approval from parents regarding the use of...

NCCN Guideline Adherence Lowers Total Cost of Care for Cancer Patients

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Adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines during treatment correlates to lower total costs of care (TCOC) for breast and colon cancer patients, according to findings...

Shift to Cloud Key Strategy in Healthcare, But Challenges Persist

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A report published late last month by Forrester outlines some of the challenges that healthcare organizations face, including security and compliance issues, and provides best practices when...

Natural Language Processing Helps Shed Light on Youth Mental Health Crisis

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American youth have been battling high anxiety and grief amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report. The Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7 text-based...

Machine-Learning Platform Can Accurately Predict Surgical Complications

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University of Florida (UF) researchers have developed a machine-learning (ML) platform, called MySurgeryRisk, that can predict surgical complications as accurately as clinicians. Surgery and potential...

New Collaboration to Leverage Engineering, AI to Improve Nursing Education

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The Ohio State University Colleges of Nursing and Engineering are working together to launch a new project called ‘Disrupting Nursing Education with XR, AI and ML,’ which aims to better...

Machine Learning May Help Predict Opioid Overdoses in Medicaid Patients

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Researchers have developed and validated a machine-learning (ML) model that can accurately predict opioid overdose risk in Medicaid beneficiaries in Pennsylvania and Arizona, indicating that the model...

New Initiative Combines Nursing Expertise, AI to Create Prediction Model

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is leading a multi-hospital effort known as the CONCERN (COmmunicating Narrative Concerns Entered by RNs) Initiative, which aims to utilize...

Researchers Call for ‘Distributed Approach’ to Clinical AI Regulation

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Researchers argue that the national, centralized regulation of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) is not sufficient and instead propose a hybrid model of centralized and decentralized...

New Data Science Training Program to Focus on Health Equity

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The National Library of Medicine has awarded the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Clemson University $1.2 million to establish a new data science training program that will teach...

In-Person Screening, Machine Learning Can Help Predict Suicide Risk

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Researchers found that suicide risk predictions for adult patients significantly improve when using an approach that combines in-person screening with an EHR-based machine-learning (ML) model. The...

Geisinger Deploys AI Imaging Model to Diagnose Coronary Artery Disease

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Clinicians at Pennsylvania-based Geisinger health system have deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging model that uses computed tomography (CT) scans to create 3D models of a...

Data Sharing Knowledge Gaps Widespread Among Patients

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Only about half of respondents (52 percent) identified health information as part of the personal data collected and shared in clinical settings, indicating significant knowledge gaps among patients...