Dr. Dorothy Fink, named acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week, issued a five-step memorandum to all HHS heads of operating division and staff divisions to curtail outgoing…
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The U.S. Health and Human Services filled three new key technology roles this month. The agency has drawn from the private sector, the White House and within the department for top artificial intelligence and…
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More than 9,000 automatic letters from hospitals to GPs in Kent were delayed by three weeks due to an error which occurred during an IT upgrade at Kent Community Health Foundation Trust.
The delayed letters,…
Pictured L-R: Prof Sebastien Ourselin Director of AI4VBH, Lawrence Tallon, Deputy CEO of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and Franz Pfister, cofounder and CEO of deepc (Image provided by deepc)
Six NHS…
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[
]Two of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust’s digital leaders will present their experiences of using Quail (Quality, AI & Learning), an AI-powered tool to analyse patient feedback. Attendees at Rewired 2025 will hear how advanced…
Medical education in Asia may be headed to a future where institutions are not only training students but also training AI models. In the HIMSS24 APAC session, “Implementing AI in Healthcare,” Dr Hyung-Chul Lee, deputy…
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This week, the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (formerly known as ONC), published its 2024 Draft Federal FHIR Action Plan. ASTP is billing the new document as…
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As of September 2024, more than half of acute trusts, 75 in total, have signed up to the NHS federated data platform (FDP), surpassing the initial target of 71 trusts by the end of…
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Accelerating clinical evidence generation is one of the most important steps the healthcare industry can take to advance personalized treatment, Amy Abernethy declared in an interview this week.
“When I talk about clinical evidence generation,…
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A critical incident declared at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is not the result of a cyber attack, the trust has told Digital Health News.
NUH declared a critical incident on 10 September 2024,…
