Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, so reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful…
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HIMSS, in statement on racial inequity, pledges to 'drive meaningful change'
HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT News, released a statement this week in response to the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, promising to work toward mitigating inequities in the healthcare system. “As a mission-driven member association,…
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Researchers at Mount Sinai use AI to detect COVID-19 in lung scans
Researchers from New York-based Mount Sinai Health System have combined artificial intelligence, imaging and clinical data to rapidly detect COVID-19 in patients. In a study published this week in Nature Medicine, researchers used AI algorithms in conjunction with chest CT…
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Innovation ROI depends on staying patient-focused, tracking metrics
Many hospitals rush towards any opportunity to innovate that they can think of, looking for new ways to serve patients or to perform better financially. In the quest to develop these innovative solutions, providers need to remember to track return…
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COVIDathon aims to develop open source tools to combat pandemic
Starting April 1st, the Decentralized AI Alliance and partners SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol plan to host an online, not-for-profit hackathon called COVIDathon. The goal is to bring together the decentralized artificial intelligence community in an effort to help find solutions…
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HIMSS CEO: Cancelling conference was 'heartbreaking,' but HIMSS20 Digital is set for growth
This past week, just days before it was scheduled to begin – with a sitting president, for the first time ever, addressing its opening session – HIMSS announced the cancellation of its 2020 Global Health Conference & Exhibition. In the…
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How integration of SDOH data is helping improve opioid response, pop health
As hospitals and health systems have become more aware of the key value of social determinants of health, the questions have shifted somewhat. Now, many providers and public health agencies are focused on more nuts and bolts questions: related to…
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ChristianaCare, Medtronic join on new project to target technologies, therapies
ChristianaCare will work with Medtronic on a five-year effort to innovate new value-based strategies, collaborating on new approaches to target therapies and technology-enabled intervention on the patients who will benefit most. WHY IT MATTERS Under the new agreement, Wilmington, Delaware-based…
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