Survey: Hospitals Will Boost Technology Spending in 2023-24
The push to stay on top of the digital health landscape is prompting healthcare organizations to increase their technology investment in the coming year. And they’re very interested in automation and remote patient monitoring solutions.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 83 – The Impact of Cyber Risks on Patient Safety
On episode 83 of PSQH: The Podcast, Anthony Martinez, cybersecurity and privacy expert at Clearwater, talks about the patient safety implications of cyber risks.
New Technologies, Ideas Push the Hospital at Home Concept Forward
Hundreds of hospitals across the country have launched an acute care at home program, focused on treating patients at home versus in a hospital bed. Many of those hospitals are following the Acute Hospital Care at Home model developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which sets strict guidelines for in-person care to qualify for Medicare reimbursement.
The Exec: New Nursing Technology Replicates ‘the Best Preceptor You Ever Had’
The platform provides nurses with a resource hub they can consult for bedside care by delivering hospital best practices in readily digestible resource formats such as interactive guides, how-to video clips, concise updates, and intuitive checklists.
Care-at-Home Technology Looks to Decrease Risks of Maternal Mortality
Current Health is leveraging its care-at-home platform to quickly identify signs of potentially fatal conditions related to pregnancy, such as severe-range hypertension and preeclampsia.
Using AI-Driven Insights to Understand COVID-19 Decision-Making
The study used a form of AI called a causal Bayesian network to map out these drivers and uncover a system-level understanding of barriers to help providers, healthcare organizations, and even government agencies create more effective strategies.
Improving Patient Outcomes With Purposefully Designed Patient Engagement Systems
Patients want personalized experiences that address their needs, evaluate their circumstances, and provide better outcomes. As experiences become more customizable in other industries, patients want the same customizability throughout healthcare. Digital transformation is making it possible to support both the patient and clinician experience with an equitable approach.
How Automation Can Improve the EHR Experience
Healthcare faces a crisis on multiple fronts when it comes to efficiency and staffing. According to a Kaufman Hall report, roughly half of hospitals ended 2022 with a negative margin, while more than 1.7 million people left healthcare jobs last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Will Policy, Regulation Issues Stifle AI’s Advances in Healthcare?
During the recent AIMed Global Summit in San Diego, Alya Sulaiman, a partner in the McDermott Will & Emery law firm who focuses on digital health, described an active landscape in which federal agencies like the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, the US Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission were competing with the likes of state attorneys general to regulate the technology.
AI Could Match Patients With Clinical Trials
The survey of 58 payer and provider senior executives — many of whom specialize in AI and analytics, and more than half of whom work at larger hospitals and academic medical centers — was compiled in February and published this week in a CCM report.