Clinical

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.  

Kaiser Permanente Georgia is getting more patients booked and into imaging, thanks to new equipment that completes PT scans in half the time. It's also improving patient experiences and reducing duplication, says Heidi Veltman, VP & COO.  

Steven Osborne, Medweb's director of federal business, discusses the company's new teledermatology app, which compresses the highest-resolution images a patient's phone can take without compromising data quality for a doctor's review.  

Also, Hoan My Medical Group in Vietnam has deployed AI to enhance chronic disease detection.

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is working to draw attention to FDA’s medical device regulation of light-sensing technology used to measure a critical vital sign.

An online community for atrial fibrillation will connect patients and caretakers with information on the disease and help to increase beneficial partnerships, says Jim Kaveney, founder of Unlimited Heart Health & Wellness.