Decision Support

Adding clinical decision support and the ability to see patient activity outside the four walls of the hospital enabled, among other things, a 94% reduction in Dilaudid use.

Working with AWS, researchers from UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon are building new machine learning tools for breast cancer and depression screening.

Dubbed CAPE, the AI solution is implemented as a standalone desktop application that can be installed on radiology workstations.

The tool, developed by Lumio Medical, is a hybrid AI decision-support system trained on data from more than 10,000 patients.

Researchers at UCSF describe the emergence of a new field dedicated to better integrating and supporting the clinical use of social determinants of health data.

The UpToDate integration allows docs, nurses and pharmacists from 18 DHA sites to access it via the authority’s Salama EMR to "make evidence-based clinical decisions for their patients and keep their medical knowledge up to date."

Elective but necessary surgeries were banned for a time. To properly catch up, Phoenix Children’s Hospital built a visually informative, interactive, actionable dashboard using Microsoft’s Power BI software.

‘Critical care in critical settings – the human factor makes the difference’ was the theme of the recent HIMSS Dutch Community webinar that was moderated by Conchita Kleijweg, manager expertisecentrum Nictiz. Dave Tjan, intensivist and medical manager Acute Care at Ziekenhuis Gelderse Vallei, Joyce Simons, senior managing consultant healthcare at Berenschot and Robert Stegwee, strategic consultant for Health IT, shared their valuable insights around their experiences.

With uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 ramifications, healthcare organisations need to establish resilient and agile systems going forward. The facilitation of clinical decision support solutions reduces unwarranted variability. 

COVID-19 has revealed a lot about the world we live in. It has reinforced the possibilities that open up when we collaborate and come together, united towards a common cause; in this case, of defeating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 says Atif Al Braiki, CEO, Abu Dhabi Health Data Services LLC (Malaffi).