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How clinicians can combat burnout by filtering through the “noise” of information overload

eHealth Radio Network - (Thursday February 2, 2023)
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Dr. Robert L. Murry, the Chief Medical Officer at NextGen Healthcare, an award-winning provider of innovative cloud-based healthcare technology solutions for over 100,000 ambulatory providers joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care and Technology Channels. Dr. Murry is also a board-certified practicing family physician.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Robert L. Murry discuss the following:
Describe what doctors are facing today in terms of information overload and this concept of “overtech.”
How did this come about and what approaches have been attempted to correct it?
What is your advice to those trying to combat this overload and ‘turn down the…

NLP in Healthcare 3/3: ChatGPT, Med-PaLM and the Potential of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

Faces of Digital Health - (Thursday February 2, 2023)
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Startups Can Move Fast by Combining LLMs With Their Smaller Case-Specific Language ModelsIt is nearly impossible for startups to build their own large language models. Still, they can build smaller models for fine-tuning and…

Preparing for the World of Generative AI

Digital Health Frontier - (Wednesday February 1, 2023)
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By John Halamka and Paul Cerrato — ChatGPT and similar systems will increasingly be part of our lives, including health care. We need guidelines to ensure their ethical deployment.
The post Preparing for the World of Generative AI appeared first on Mayo Clinic Platform….

HCA uses AI to decrease time from cancer diagnosis to first treatment by almost a week

Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 1, 2023)
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HCA Healthcare has 14 hospitals covering a radius of more than 300 miles. The staff members knew they had a large catchment area. However, caseloads were based on registry data that was delayed, and not a true reflection of the provider organization’s oncology program as a whole.THE PROBLEM
“With multiple points of entry, we relied on manual searches through pathology, physician schedules and referrals to identify newly diagnosed cancer cases and patients,” said Kristina Rua, RN, an oncology nurse, oncology nurse navigator and president of the Florida Academy of Oncology Nurse and Patient Navigators, who previously was director of oncology navigation services in…

House bill would put a stop to VA EHR modernization

Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 1, 2023)
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Citing billions more to be spent over the next several years by the Department of Veterans Affairs on a new electronic health record system that has been fraught with implementation struggles, Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., say he wants to stop the rollout of the Oracle Cerner EHR system as soon as possible.WHY IT MATTERS
As he enters his second term serving the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Rosendale will now chair the Subcommittee on Technology Modernization legislative, which oversees and has investigative jurisdiction over the VA’s enterprise technology modernization programs and projects.
According to an announcement, the VA EHR termination bill introduced last week…

Beamtree secures contract to build Health Roundtable’s data platform

Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 1, 2023)
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ASX-listed healthcare data insights company Beamtree has been commissioned to build a data analytics platform for a group of hospitals across Australia and New Zealand. It has recently signed a A$1 million contract with Health Roundtable, a not-for-profit organisation that provides data analytics and collaborative knowledge-sharing activities to hospitals in the region.
Health Roundtable started in 1995 as a knowledge-sharing collective of clinicians and hospital administrators. With a network of 90 health services and 177 hospitals, the organisation facilitates the sharing of insights from benchmarked data, best practices and new ideas, service improvement and innovation activities, and community collaborations. 
Based on their revised contract…

Telestroke service reaches rural NSW faster than the metro

Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 1, 2023)
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The NSW Telestroke Service has been fully rolled out across New South Wales, transforming healthcare in rural and regional communities.This life-saving service connects patients with a network of specialist stroke doctors via video consultation, managed by Prince of Wales Hospital. It provides rapid 24/7 access to stroke diagnosis and treatment. The service has so far delivered treatment to over 3,000 stroke patients at 23 rural and regional hospitals in the state. 
Jointly funded by the NSW and Commonwealth governments, the A$21.7 million ($15 million) service was implemented in collaboration with eHealth NSW, the Agency for Clinical Innovation and the Ministry of Health, with…

Microsoft signs first AI healthcare partnership in Vietnam

Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 1, 2023)
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AI healthcare software company VinBrain, a company backed by Vietnam’s largest conglomerate Vingroup, has entered into a formal collaboration with Microsoft.WHAT IT’S ABOUT
According to a press release, the partnership, which is a first for the global tech company in Vietnam, will work on three areas of AI healthcare: data sharing, cross-product validation, and R&D.
VinBrain will leverage DrAid, its suite of AI-powered pathology solutions which can detect 21 disease indicators of the heart, lungs and bone. The US FDA-approved platform is being used by around 2,000 doctors and more than 100 hospitals in Vietnam. 
The AI platform runs on a dataset of over…

The Opportunity In Cancer: How to Radically Transform Your Cancer Recovery Journey

eHealth Radio Network - (Tuesday January 31, 2023)
eHealth Radio Network/ Podcasts

Dr. Katrina Cox, the best selling author of “The Opportunity In Cancer: How to Radically Transform Your Cancer Recovery Journey”, an international bestseller in four countries across multiple categories joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Information and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Katrina Cox discuss the following:
How does one boost their energy after cancer?

How does someone deal with anxiety and fear after cancer treatment?

Do share if you would how can one create a plan to reduce the chances of cancer recurrence?
How can one become a strong support for a cancer survivor?

Looking at the positive…

Cosmos, Epic’s massive EHR analytics platform, helps reduce new mother readmissions

Healthcare IT news - (Tuesday January 31, 2023)
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Nearly 20% of postpartum patients in America develop high blood pressure; Epic Research just found in a new study that postpartum hypertension nearly triples the chances of rehospitalization.After looking at more than 1.2 million birth encounters and then grouping and comparing the highest blood pressure readings taken in the 24 hours after discharge, the study found:

Patients with blood pressure levels at or above 160/110 shortly before discharge are nearly three times more likely to be readmitted than patients with normal blood pressure readings.

More than 5% of postpartum patients with the highest blood pressure readings, equal to or greater than 160/110 mmHg,…