By Sara Heath
January 31, 2024 – The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) was able to reduce homelessness by 55 percent over a 13-year period, demonstrating the power of integrating social determinants of health interventions into the…
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By Hannah Nelson
January 31, 2024 – Access to outside health data is associated with a reduced risk of code blue events in the emergency department (ED), according to an Epic Research study.
ED clinicians triage patients…
By Hannah Nelson
January 31, 2024 – While generative AI shows promise for EHR data summarization, using large language models (LLMs) to summarize clinical data brings risks that are not clearly covered by existing Food and…
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By Anuja Vaidya
January 31, 2024 – A group of lawmakers from the United States House of Representatives and Senate have sent a letter urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to work with…
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What You Should Know:
– After enduring the worst year in recent memory, 2023 offered hope for hospitals and health systems, with data from Kaufman Hall showcasing general improvement across operational and financial measures.
– The January…
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By Jill McKeon
January 30, 2024 – Concentra Health Services filed a data breach report with HHS in January tied to a previously reported breach at Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A), a medical transcription company. Concentra’s…
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By Shania Kennedy
January 30, 2024 – Researchers from City of Hope and its precision medicine research organization, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), have developed a machine learning (ML) approach that could facilitate the early…
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Patients will have access to two new features on the NHS App effective 30 January, allowing them to see the estimated waiting time for hospital treatment and view all prescription details, NHS England said. The…
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By Shania Kennedy
January 29, 2024 – Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University have developed a technique to improve the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models for medical note analysis,…
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By Hannah Nelson
January 29, 2024 – Most digital health companies use standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) to support EHR integration, according to a study published in JAMIA.
The study aimed to capture digital health company experiences…
