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An artificial intelligence tool that can automatically produce a first draft of a SOAP note – for the caregiver’s approval or editing – has the potential to save clinicians an enormous amount of time, an expert says.

The company recently expanded the platform's capabilities to support those in inpatient settings to work across hospital, ambulatory, telehealth, skilled nursing facilities and home health. 

Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's educational health records software into its curriculum.

The CMS-based disincentives outlined in the proposed rule from ONC published Monday would penalize hospitals under the Promoting Interoperability Program, eligible clinicians under MIPS and ACO participants under the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

"Imagine if the tools on your computer that you need to do your job were so cumbersome, they caused you to be fatigued, burnout, and to have to work extra hours to get your job done. How would this impact the quality of your work?"

Threat actors could execute on a remote code execution vulnerability in Mirth Connect, a cross-platform communications tool, to gain access and compromise data, according to the NIST national vulnerability database.

Healthcare organizations should build cyber resiliency to better manage future targeted ransomware attacks.

The White House plan for "safe, secure and trustworthy" artificial intelligence wants the Department of Health and Human Services to have a mechanism in place to collect reports of "harms or unsafe healthcare practices," and act to remedy them.