Data is often called the new gold in healthcare. However, like gold, dirty data in healthcare remains a critical challenge that costs organizations both efficiency and opportunities. As I’ve seen countless times in healthcare…
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The Radiological Society of North America is hosting its annual meeting in Chicago this week, allowing clinicians and tech professionals from all over the world to share ideas and display the latest innovations in…
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This weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the debut of ChatGPT. This seems to be a good time to reflect on where generative AI has taken us during that interval.
When it initially…
People with a history of injecting drug use are a priority for eliminating blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections. Identifying them for disease surveillance in electronic medical records (EMRs) is challenged by sparsity of…
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Researchers at Loughborough University have developed an AI tool designed to enhance safety in maternity care by identifying the human factors that could impact outcomes.
The I-SIRch solution, developed by Professor Georgina Cosma and Professor…
We used natural language processing (NLP) in convergent mixed methods to evaluate young adults’ experiences with Call it a Night (CIAN), a digital personalized feedback and coaching sleep-alcohol intervention. Young adults with heavy drinking…
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Digital Health Networks’ 2024 mentoring programme has received positive feedback from mentors and mentees, ahead of the launch of the expanded 2025 programme.
The 2024 programme launched in October 2023 to support aspiring, emerging and…
The 154th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast is sponsored by DrFirst, and this time we are talking about optimizing the medication journey from prescribing to adherence to improved outcomes with special guest…
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At several conferences I’ve attended lately, there has been discussion among clinical informaticists about how increasing use of technology might be affecting our ability to process information and retain items in memory.
In speaking…
Exclusive: Dr Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), has confirmed she will be part of the data and technology enabling working group for the government’s…
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