Cybersecurity in healthcare is essential to keeping patients safe. For hospitals, a data breach isn’t a mere inconvenience — it can delay life-saving treatments and disrupt vital care. Addressing these risks requires targeted, supportive…
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A review has called for barriers to accessing NHS patient data to be removed so that it can be used for research to further medical advances.
The independent review by Professor Cathie Sudlow, chief scientist…
Introduction
Prior authorization is a widely implemented process in healthcare, intended to ensure that treatments, tests, and medications are necessary and cost-effective. However, many experts, including Peter Ax, CEO of UpScriptHealth, argue that prior authorization…
Every year when the leaves begin their fall color change, I wonder if this will be the year that my healthcare system will get its act together to synchronize patient reminders with care that…
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The following is a guest article by Mike Crouse, Director of Insider Risk at Everfox
Ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector continue to grow, with incidents nearly doubling from 2022 to 2023—a concerning figure considering…
What You Should Know:
– A recent survey by Tasso, Inc., a provider of patient-centric blood collection solutions reveals 33% of patients delay or avoid diagnostic blood tests, with the top reasons being inconvenient testing…
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What You Should Know:
– A new survey from PwC highlights significant disparities in how consumers experience the U.S. healthcare system with 65% of consumers revealing they do not seek healthcare until it’s urgent.
– The…
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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust told Digital Health News that it has pushed back the go-live date for its Oracle Health electronic patient record (EPR) system to allow further testing to ensure it is safe…
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In this blog, NHS Navigator Karla Richards reflects on the recent roundtable event “Digital Carers Support: Finding Hidden Carers and Improving Statutory Service Provision,” hosted by Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London and DigitalHealth.London,…
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Despite the promising capacity of large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots to diagnose diseases, they have not been tested for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of LLMs in OCD using vignettes and…
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