Clinical

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.

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.