Quality and Safety
Julie Eastman, RN, has been associate chief information officer at the Orange County health system for the past 18 months. With the promotion, she'll supervise IT operations and lead efforts on telecom, biomedical engineering and more.
Health systems able to offer this will not only be better positioned to survive external pressures, says one artificial intelligence expert, but will also help set the bar for critical best practices for future patient-provider relationships.
The HIPAA-compliant video analytics platform will be layered on UMC’s existing security systems. When it identifies guns, trained experts verify the threat and can dispatch alerts and intelligence to the police.
Data integrity and model validity are also must-haves, says an expert, who offers his ideas on a "clean data" mentality and explains why explicit consent is essential for training algorithms.
University of Texas researchers found that symptoms of certain diseases are more difficult for patients to communicate and doctors to observe over video. Other limitations mean little cost-reduction benefit from telehealth when compared to in-person care.
The New York hospital's vice chairman of urology and robotics operations explains how a new surgical intelligence platform digs into surgery video to help understand outcomes and improve care.
The study of 1.7 billion clinical notes over a three-year period found an increase in the use of digital tools and copy/paste functionality correlated with longer notes and a decrease in the average time spent writing notes.
Tracy Warren, CEO of Astarte Medical and a former venture investor, talks the best data, the pace of tech innovation, curbing the all-time high in premature births, and best practices to prevent lapses and medical errors in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Further, when using this nurse-facilitated technology in patients’ homes, the percentages of men and people of color were higher than national averages for ACP completion, the SVP of pop health and primary care reports.