Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) remains a widespread health concern, affecting more than one in seven US adults and posing a substantial burden on healthcare systems worldwide. Fortunately, the convergence of innovative technologies offers promising solutions to address this pressing issue. Such advancements stand to revolutionize how healthcare entities treat, prevent, and better understand this nuanced condition. Expanding Treatment Today, CKD patients benefit from an array of
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Insights Management: A New Paradigm for Cancer Treatment
The cancer market for the pharma industry accounts for about a third of their product pipeline. With oncology drug sales set to top $390 billion by 2027, life science companies are aligning efforts to prioritize this critical market opportunity ahead of competitors. The field of cancer presents unique challenges for the pharmaceutical industry, requiring innovative solutions to address high demand, intense competition, expensive research and development (R&D), complexities in drug
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Rethinking Big Data in 2024: How Healthcare Can Leverage Workforce Intelligence to Improve Care
The future of healthcare innovation over the next decade will be shaped by insights from clinician big data and AI, otherwise known as workforce intelligence. While clinical discovery is often the first thing that comes to mind, workforce data and the intelligence derived from it represent a lesser-known but equally important place in the future of medicine. How we shape healthcare’s workforce, peer networks, and processes comes down to how we use data to surface meaningful information.
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How Hospitals Can Overcome the Challenges of Diabetes Management
The modern-day hospital is grappling with an alarming trend. According to a new global study, the number of people with diabetes is growing at a troubling rate and is expected to double by 2050. This is generating a national conversation among health system leaders on inpatient glycemic management strategies, and whether their facilities are doing enough. Hospitals and health systems have long understood the need to reduce preventable hypoglycemia, yet despite a renewed sense of urgency, many of
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How Healthcare Can Take A Consumer-First Cue From Small Business
“Bang Head Here.” This message was printed above a large black circle, push-pinned to a practice’s front desk the day Zocdoc’s user research team visited to better understand their patient engagement challenges. If this is not a representative sign of the state of America’s independent medical practices, I don’t know what is. I can relate. Throughout nearly a decade of medical training, I spent tens of thousands of hours becoming an expert in things like peak airway
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Beyond QA: The Next Wave of Medical Chatbots
Chatbots have come a long way since inception. While we’ve long used them for shopping and to expedite customer service requests, with growing popularity and use cases, they’re now common in fields from finance to healthcare. In particular, medical chatbots can achieve everything from improving the efficiency and quality of care, to quickly connecting patients to important information or providers. Like most machine learning tools, the more data a medical chatbot is trained on, the
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Guarding Patient Privacy in the Age of AI Healthcare
2022 research from Morning Consult reveals that the healthcare field in particular has witnessed substantial enhancements in medical diagnoses, mental health evaluations, and the expeditious discovery of treatment options following the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, 59% of U.S. healthcare executives believe that AI is effective at improving clinical outcomes. While AI has proven valuable in the industry, its application in healthcare carries
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Automating Implant Orders: A Turning Point in Healthcare’s Digital Transformation
Advancements in medical technology have increased the demand for surgical implants. These implants, such as artificial joints and heart valves, pacemakers, ventricular shunts and cochlear implants, have revolutionized how doctors treat patients, helping them live better, more fulfilling lives. The implantable device market is projected to reach $166.3 billion by 2032. Although this growth is exciting, it also highlights the need for healthcare to transform
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5 Egregious Virtual Assistant Fails and How to Overcome Them
Three phenomena conspire to drive healthcare organizations towards digitization: 1) patient demand for the same online experience as other consumer sites (e.g., Amazon, Open Table); 2) manual processes contributing to overextended staff made worse by labor shortfalls; and 3) unrelenting need to control costs, optimize revenue and streamline workflows. But one primary barrier stands in the way: the historically poor performance of chatbots. Let’s face it. Every single one of us has found
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Why Budget Alignment is Critical When Supporting All Stakeholders Throughout a Hospital’s Data Archiving Journey
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, data archiving is often underestimated and misunderstood, leading to costly mistakes and challenges for hospitals and health systems. Imagine this common scenario: You've chosen an archiving vendor based on the lowest price and quickest timeline. However, as your project approaches the go-live date and legacy system decommissioning, you discover missing data and images in the archive. This setback adds an extra 90 days to your timeline, forcing you
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