Clinical

Health organisations must understand the needs of their staff and processes first before adding new technologies into the mix, says Harvard research associate Brian Spisak.  

In her AI classes for medical students, Stéphanie Allassonière, professor of applied mathematics at the Univérsite Paris Cité, first teaches them how to properly collect and clean data to get the most accurate responses out of AI tools.  

Since its botched Microsoft security update this past week, most healthcare organizations seem to be resuming normal operations. But one of the largest IT snafus ever shows that the industry must better prepare for third-party technology disruptions.

American Heart Association's Rachael Charbonneau discusses how the organization's professional training programs help improve healthcare professionals' digital literacy.  

Hyland's recent survey with HIMSS Market Insights found that many healthcare organizations are still struggling to exchange patient data, even after moving to the cloud. Lyle McMillin, the company's principal product manager, unpacks those results.

Graham Holland, deputy chief pharmacist at the Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, discusses positive results from the hospital's digital transformation, including a 44% reduction in medication administration incidents.

As the number of ransomware incidents against healthcare organizations increases, providers need to employ key strategies to protect patient data, says Tapan Mehta, health executive at Palo Alto Networks.

CrowdSrike says the BSOD outage for Microsoft Windows was caused by a botched security update. It has resulted in surgical cancellations, ambulance diversions and other patient care disruptions at doctors' offices, ERs and hospitals around the globe.

Rural providers are using use voice AI to manage administrative burden and the government funding NLP research into improving the cultural sensitivity of mental healthcare. Other companies, meanwhile, have announced new secure-by-design certifications.

Providers and payers are scaling artificial intelligence to accelerate workflows, enhance patient care and unlock personalized medicine, say Oron Afek, CEO of Vim, and Ashok Chennuru, global chief data and insights officer at Elevance Health.