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The two-state health system will leverage technology from from Advanced ICU Care, as well as the clinical expertise of its advanced practice providers, intensivists and nurses.

Health application developer Clarigent Health is teaming up with The Children’s Home of Cincinnati to complete a pilot study using Clarigent’s artificial intelligence-powered mobile decision support app. The platform works by analyzing linguistic and vocal characteristics of sessions between therapists or physicians and patients to provide a near real-time assessment of a patient at risk for suicide or mental health conditions. WHY IT MATTERS Clarigent’s application uses advanced algorithms to analyze linguistic and vocal characteristics collected during therapy sessions from clients of The Children’s Home, a provider of education and mental health treatment for children. In the pilot, titled Classification and Assessment of Mental Health Performance Using Schematics, or CAMPUS, 20 therapists working in multiple elementary, middle and high school settings across southwest Ohio will deploy the mobile app to record regularly scheduled sessions with students. "This technology has the potential to change how mental health services are administered on a global scale,” Children’s Home President and CEO John Banchy said in a statement. While previous clinical studies have tested the technology in hospital and emergency room settings, with results published in peer-reviewed journals, CAMPUS marks the debut of the app in a school environment. Participation in the pilot and recording requires the consent of the student and parent or guardian, and the schools have also granted consent. The research team hopes to obtain 400 to 600 recordings in this initial phase, before progressing to a larger study in the fall involving several thousand students. Clinicians, who make the ultimate decisions on treatment, can use the app's assessment and recommendations to help inform and guide them. The goals for the pilot aim to show the app can be integrated into a normal therapy session without interfering with the session, and to ensure the app can receive audio of sufficient quality in a school setting to enable analysis by the app. The fall study will include control participants from the general student population in addition to screening for a more diverse set of behavioral health conditions. THE LARGER TREND While initially focused on suicidality and mental health, Clarigent is looking at other areas – both inside and outside of healthcare – where its technology platform can also be leveraged. In addition, Clarigent intends to conduct and publish additional studies supporting and underlying the rationale for the recommendations provided by the app to better enable clinicians to independently review the basis for the recommendations. ON THE RECORD "This technology was invented in response to a need expressed by medical professionals who work with young people in crisis,” Clarigent Health CEO Don Wright said in a statement. “This study is an important first step in moving the technology from the hospital and research bench into the real world where kids are every day." .jumbotron{ background-image: url("https://www.healthcareitnews.com/sites/hitn/files/u6245/digital%20transformation%20jumbotron.jpg"); background-size: cover; color: white; } .jumbotron h2{ color: white; } Digital Transformation in Healthcare In May, we'll talk to experts and professionals on the front lines about what's really happening today with the digital transformation in healthcare and what hospital executives need to be doing right now. Twitter: @SullyHIT Email the writer: tom.sullivan@himssmedia.com Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.  Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com Twitter: @dropdeaded209  Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. 

The impact of the app on the Providence St. Joseph Health care delivery experience is reflected in the fact that 94 percent of the patients who used it found it to be helpful.

Yonsei University Health System (YUHS), one of the oldest and largest private university hospital networks in South Korea, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SK Telecom, South Korea's largest wireless carrier, to build a 5G-powered digital hospital. Under the MOU, SK Telecom and  YUHS will work together to build a 5G network and develop specialised solutions for the Yongin Severance Hospital, which is scheduled to open in February 2020, by leveraging SK Telecom’s technological expertise in areas of 5G, AI, IoT and media. The 5G-powered digital hospital will be equipped with SK Telecom’s AI speaker NUGU to enable patients with physical difficulties to easily control their beds, lighting and TV with their voice. They can even use NUGU Call service to get medical assistance in case of emergencies. AR-based indoor navigation service through the application of indoor positioning and 3D mapping technologies to enhance the convenience of patients and visitors will also be introduced at the new 5G-powered hospital. SK Telecom is also considering to apply its quantum cryptography solutions to its network covering the Severance Hospital, Gangnam Severance Hospital and Yongin Severance Hospital (hospitals under the YUHS network) as a cybersecurity measure to prevent unauthorised access to sensitive medical information. What’s the trend It is important to note that 5G is not just an extension of 3G and 4G networks. The technology is rather a network that combines 4G, Wi-Fi, wireless access technologies and millimetre wave. It also leverages cloud infrastructure, intelligent edge services and virtualised network core. It promises a massive boost in transfer speeds that things like distributed computing or IoT devices in healthcare need to reach their full potential. 5G technology is not quite ready to be harnessed, but by 2019 the first vendors plan to bring this technology to its full potential. According to a Xinhua news article last month, China's Guangdong province will build its first 5G-based demonstration hospital, which is a joint partnership between Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, China Mobile Group Guangdong Co., Ltd. (Guangdong Mobile), and the tech giant Huawei. In the US, Rush System for Health in Chicago has partnered with AT&T to become what it says is the first in the nation to use a standards-based 5G network in a healthcare setting.  On the record “Today is a high-tech digital era, so the digital transformation for hospitals is a must,” YUHS President and CEO Yoon Do-heum said in a statement. “Yongin Severance Hospital will become the core of Yonsei Medical Centre as an intelligent digital innovation hospital.” Park Jung-ho, President and CEO of SK Telecom, said: “SK Telecom’s partnership with Yonsei University Health System carries a significant meaning as it represents a new level of collaboration between two different industries.” “SK Telecom will work closely with the Yonsei University Health System to build the world’s best 5G-enabled hospital by utilising cutting-edge ICT.”

Real-time location systems can enable big gains in quality, safety and cost-efficiency – but deployments are complex and require clear role definitions and enthusiastic buy-in from an array of stakeholders, a new KLAS report shows.

Consumer-facing technologies outpaced digital health tools built for practices in the first quarter of this year.

Since deploying speech recognition and integrating it with its athenahealth EHR, the group practice has seen the average note completion time drop from 4.8 minutes to 1.6 minutes per note.

The system worked with a patient design team and turned the metrics of success upside down, for starters.

The iPhone app enables patients to access data about medications, immunizations, labs and receive notifications.

From brain-computer interfaces to nanorobotics, a new report from Frost & Sullivan explores leading edge developments and disruptive tech.