By Hannah Nelson
May 30, 2023 – EHR interventions to change default dosing settings for opioid prescriptions may be feasible to implement in various surgical populations, especially if the new settings are evidence-based, according to a…
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Healthcare information technology can fail badly if CIOs and other health IT leaders at provider organizations don’t get it right from the beginning.That’s why health IT implementation best practices are so important. And that…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 26, 2023 – Health IT developers using Health Level Seven International (HL7) interoperability standards and guides will have increased access to American Medical Association (AMA) medical codes and descriptors through a new partnership.
AMA…
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has fitted out each of its inpatient wards with digital whiteboards as part of the implementation of a real-time patient flow system.The solution will allow the trust to better…
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By Anuja Vaidya
May 23, 2023 – Interviews with primary care practice leaders in Florida and New York revealed numerous challenges to telehealth implementation, including a need for more explicit telehealth visit triage guidelines following the…
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the implementation challenges of AI/ML in healthcare. However, little is known about how developers and clinicians interpret XAI and what conflicting goals…
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The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) has expressed concerns about the proposed interoperability and AI transparency rule (HTI-1) from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). EHRA believes that the…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes caution and the ethical use of AI in healthcare, particularly large language models like ChatGPT. WHO calls for careful evaluation of risks, protection of human well-being, transparency, and…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 19, 2023 – Princeton Brain, Spine & Sports Medicine (PBSSM) has chosen to pursue an EHR implementation transitioning from its in-house EHR system to a cloud-based version of eClinicalWorks.
The 27-provider practice across…
Background: Mobile health interventions are common in public health settings in Africa, and our preliminary work showed that smartphones are increasing in South Africa. We developed a novel smartphone app—CareConekta—that used GPS location data…
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