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Innovation
As artificial intelligence and robotic process automation are more widely deployed, they will help rehumanize medicine by allowing doctors to focus less on paperwork and administrative functions, and more on patient care.
The NYU School of Medicine’s technology enables radiologists to see images the way they currently see them, then, if they deem necessary, ask the AI for its opinion. Results to date are impressive.
The Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula combines technology and teamwork to tackle the opioid crisis, seeing more than a 50% decrease in the number of narcotic pills prescribed at local primary care clinics.
The news is being touted by IDx, makers of the first medical device approved by FDA to use artificial intelligence to assess diabetic retinopathy.
The update will help health systems coordinate care, with a specific focus on delirium, including sedation and pain medications, breathing machines and mobilization.
Florida tops the list with the most across general, children's, rural and teaching hospitals – followed by California, Michigan and Virginia.
The hospital developed the system that gathers data from the EHR, runs it through artificial intelligence, and delivers real-time warnings to clinicians.
The Delaware health system and the device maker will collaborate on a series of tech-focused value-based care initiatives to boost patient outcomes and safety while lowering costs.
A new KLAS report explores how pop health platforms are being used specifically for care management, and shows how various vendors' tools are able to support care managers' work.
Innovation
As healthcare moves further into the post-electronic health record era, approaches to one of its foundational technologies have been slowly evolving to fit the times.