Clinical information isn’t moving where it needs to go.
Despite decades of investment in health IT, the industry is still grappling with basic data exchange. As recently as 2023, 47.4% of small hospitals and 42.8% of rural hospitals still relied on mail or fax as their primary method of exchanging patient information. Even among medium and large hospitals, nearly one third still rely on these methods.
These manual processes take more time, introduce more risk, and delay care—yet they
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Artisight Launches AI Platform to Autonomously Document Operating Room Activity into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Artisight, a Smart Hospital platform, has announced a new capability that autonomously documents operating room (OR) activity into a patient's electronic health record (EHR) using advanced AI and computer vision.
- This eliminates the need for clinicians and other healthcare staff to manually document key milestones in a procedure. This technology not only provides real-time updates that boost patient satisfaction but also makes a more productive use of high-demand
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Beyond the Algorithm: Why Data Infrastructure is the Key to Successful AI in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to hold the spotlight in healthcare transformation, promising everything from predictive care to streamlined administrative processes. Visionary use cases include anticipating patient deterioration, optimizing care coordination, accelerating prior authorizations, and unlocking insights from clinical notes that would otherwise remain buried.
But despite the promise, adoption remains uneven. Many organizations have piloted AI initiatives only to struggle
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MaineHealth Deploys First AI Nursing Agent for Behavioral Health
What You Should Know:
- MaineHealth Behavioral Health at Spring Harbor (MHBHSH) has licensed Acuity Behavioral Health’s Behavioral Health Operations Intelligence (BHOI) platform and BHAI software for its inpatient psychiatric units.
- The goal is to eventually implement the platform across the entire MaineHealth system. As a national leader in the innovation of care for mental illness, MHBHSH will use the BHOI platform to improve the care and safety of patients and nursing
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Sage Growth Partners Report: Healthcare C-Suite Acknowledges AI Potential but Lacks Trust
What You Should Know:
- A new report from healthcare consultancy Sage Growth Partners has revealed a growing disconnect between the potential of AI in healthcare and the preparedness of hospital and health system leaders to implement it.
- The report, The Healthcare C-Suite's Take on AI, is the first in a three-part series based on an annual survey of 101 C-suite leaders from various integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, and independent hospitals.
Healthcare
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How Healthcare CIOs Can Solve the Unstructured Data Crisis and Reduce Storage Costs
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a seismic shift in how they handle unstructured data. From digital pathology to high-resolution imaging, genomic sequencing, and machine-generated sensor data, the volume of data that doesn’t fit neatly into rows and columns of a database has exploded across hospitals, research labs, and academic institutions.
While this unstructured data is intrinsic to patient care and scientific discovery, it’s also creating a mounting crisis for
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Barti Software Secures $12M Series A to Expand AI-Powered EHR for Eye Care
What You Should Know:
- Barti Software, a AI-powered company that provides innovative electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software built for eye care practices, announced a $12 million Series A investment led by Five Elms Capital.
- This partnership will enable Barti to scale its go-to-market efforts, grow its team across key functions, and accelerate development of new AI capabilities and workflow automation as Barti expands into ophthalmology. The company will
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ModMed Launches AI-Powered Enhanced Faxing for EMA®, Reducing Admin Time by 80%
What You Should Know:
- ModMed®, a leader in healthcare technology, today announced a major advancement aimed at relieving healthcare providers from heavy administrative burdens. With the release of Enhanced Faxing for EMA®, which uses AI to categorize, extract and direct key information from the faxed document directly into the EHR with minimal human intervention, ModMed is streamlining one of healthcare's most stubborn manual processes: faxing.
- Unlike third-party fax solutions that
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Guide to Precision Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
Personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is redefining healthcare by tailoring medical treatment to the unique characteristics of each individual. This approach integrates genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors to enhance disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The potential benefits of precision medicine are profound, and include numerous foundations and applications which we will explore in this piece. It must be noted, however, that the implementation of
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Rimidi Partners with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Food as Medicine Trial
What You Should Know:
- Rimidi, a digital health company that supports healthcare providers with EHR-integrated software and connected devices, has announced its participation in the Health Care by Food (GoFreshSoutheast) Trial. The trial is managed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and funded by The American Heart Association.
- The goal of the trial is to evaluate the impact of DASH-aligned grocery store delivery in reducing high blood pressure in adults.
- The
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