Clinical

By partnering with health systems to support hybrid care models, long-term care facilities can mitigate staff shortages of staff and better manage available beds, explains Joe O'Brien, head of sales, digital health at LG Electronics.

The seven-state health system seeks to standardize its patient-monitoring tools and processes at 49 hospitals and hundreds of care sites via the partnership.

The new Hospital AI Readiness Index from CB Insights assessed 25 health systems for how they're innovating and executing on their artificial intelligence projects.

The companies will further develop speech-to-text technology that takes healthcare provider's notes and can upload key excerpts to EHR-agnostic files, while the agency accepts feedback on the sole-source solicitations.

Eversana and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance analyze, map and report on reimbursement frameworks in Europe for digital therapeutics. Alberta Spreafico, SVP of health innovation at Eversana, explains.  

Emmanuel Bilbault, cofounder and CEO of POSOS, says the company's AI-powered clinical support platform offers alternate drugs to prescribe to avoid interaction risk, rather than simply alert doctors of possible medication errors.  

Health systems and hospitals are experiencing widespread nurse shortages, and those shortages became a driving factor in nurse strikes across the U.S. in 2023. As healthcare organizations explore ways to mitigate the factors leading to nurse burnout and turnover, technology presents one possible way to help improve nurse satisfaction.

Patients are accustomed to using retailers’ contactless payment solutions for purchases, and they expect the same experience with healthcare providers. Establishing easy-to-use digital payment options encourages patients to pay promptly and can reduce time to collection.

Fay Stevenson, ICT director at Barts Health NHS Trust, shares learnings and best practices from the trust's INFRAM journey, including the need to understand existing technology before deciding how to replace or build onto it.

Hee-Eun Ahn and Min-Young Song, product leads at South Korea's AIMMED, discuss Somzz, a medical device offering insomnia interventions, and Snuz, a sleep-management app powered by GPT4-o that will be available globally in August 2024.