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Drug Diversion Monitoring Solutions Largely Beneficial for Providers

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A new report from KLAS Research found that healthcare organizations reported better transaction pattern identification, drug diversion detection, and overall efficiency when utilizing drug detection...

Researchers Call for ‘Reimbursement Framework’ for Healthcare AI

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A paper published in npj Digital Medicine earlier this month outlines a potential “reimbursement framework” for the adoption of healthcare artificial intelligence (AI), which researchers...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Geisinger, Tempus Develop AI Model to Predict Heart Disease

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Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger health system and biotechnology research company Tempus have developed an electrocardiogram (ECG)-based artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict...

NC Radiology Center to Deploy AI Tools for Enhanced Breast Cancer Care

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Physician-owned radiology company US Radiology Specialists is partnering with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software company Volpara Health to deploy AI tools at Charlotte Radiology with the...

AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes

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Researchers from the University of Washington’s School of Medicine and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that...

AI Device May Help Diagnose Children’s Autism in Primary Care Settings

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New research has found that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical device can assist clinicians in primary care settings accurately diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children up to 6...

Machine-Learning Clinical Decision Support Tool Improves UTI Treatment

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Researchers have found that a machine learning-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) significantly impacted treatment success and antibiotic prescription behavior for urinary tract infections...

New Framework to Evaluate Bias in COVID-19 Prediction Models

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Researchers have developed a framework to evaluate and address unrecognized modeling bias that can be present in healthcare-related artificial intelligence (AI). According to a study published in...

Mayo, CDC Leaders: Policy, Coalitions Key Barriers to Data Modernization

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To prepare for the next pandemic, healthcare leaders believe that data modernization is key, but several challenges stand in the way, including conflicting policies, lack of interoperability, and the...

Huntsville Heart Center to Test AI-Based Cardiac Technology

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As artificial intelligence (AI) use in healthcare grows, a new partnership between Artrya and Alabama-based Huntsville Heart Center aims to access the efficacy of Artrya Salix, an AI-based cardiac...

AI May Be More Prone to Errors in Image-Based Diagnoses Than Clinicians

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Researchers have found that deep neural networks (DNNs) make mistakes in image-based medical diagnoses that humans are less likely to make, and they hypothesize that these mistakes may indicate that...