Virtual doulas reduce the chances of a cesarean section (C-section) and improve birth experiences at rates that are “comparable” to in-person doula care, a recent study discovered. Doulas provide emotional, physical and informational support…
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By Shania Kennedy
December 18, 2023 – Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) found that the large language model (LLM) ChatGPT-4 outperforms clinicians in some instances of estimating the probabilities of diagnoses before and…
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England’s Health Services Safety Investigations Body says that IT problems are among the most pressing in hospitals, noting that some of the reports it has reviewed involved patient deaths.
It gives examples of…
As clinical burnout continues to be a major issue plaguing the healthcare industry, AI scribing tools are gaining popularity. These tools — made by companies such as Nuance, Augmedix and DeepScribe — use speech…
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Andrew Lockhart, CEO of Fathom
Healthcare leaders need to lean into artificial intelligence (AI) or risk losing out. With advancements in technology taking place at lightning speed, 2024 is the year adopting AI becomes a…
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More than a third of top Australian hospitals have been found to lack basic cybersecurity protocols to protect themselves from email fraud and domain spoofing. FINDINGS
In October, United States-based cybersecurity company Proofpoint made a Domain-based…
Approximately 11.7 million U.S. households do not have in-home internet access and approximately 5.5 million households do not have a computer, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s just the beginning of a deep…
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Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has apologised after it mistakenly released private information belonging to more than 22,000 patients in two major data breaches in 2020 and 2021.The trust released an official statement yesterday…
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Celero Systems, and West Virginia University have created a new ingestible device that can monitor vital signs such as respiratory rate and heart rate….
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At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in San Diego next week, one analytics leader will discuss the artificial intelligence use cases he’s found most success with – and will offer tips and perspective…
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