- UC San Francisco launches Center for Intelligent Imaging named ci2 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology to improve patient diagnoses and care.
- ci2 researchers will work with NVIDIA Corp. to build infrastructure and tools focused on enabling the translation of AI in clinical practice.
- The center will serve as a hub for the multidisciplinary development of AI in imaging to meet unmet clinical needs and provide a platform to measure the impact and
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NYC Health + Hospitals to Invest $224M to Upgrade Medical Imaging Technology Over 10 Years
- NYC Health + Hospitals plans to invest $224M over the next 10 years to upgrade its medical imaging technology across the health system. - 230 medical imaging units will be replaced and updated within first four years- Equipment will support the public health system’s goal of standardizing care and providing patients modernized, state-of-the-art imaging technologyNYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest public healthcare system today announced that it is investing $224 million over
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Parkland Hospital Saves $17M With AI-Powered Predictive Model to Prevent In-Hospital Adverse Drug Events
- Parkland Hospital delivers over $17M in savings preventing in-hospital adverse drug events using an AI-powered predictive model developed by the Park Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI).- The program, Patients at Risk for Adverse Drug Events (PARADE) demonstrated positive results combating ADEs, a problem that impacts more than 450,000 patients nationwide and increases the risk for re-admissions lengthen the stay of patients by 2 to 3 days and adds almost $4B in extra hospital costs
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ECRI Institute: Top 10 Health Technology Hazards to Watch in 2020
- Surgical stapler misuse and point-of-care ultrasound tops ECRI Institute’s 2020 health technology hazards list that warrant attention from healthcare leaders. - Hazards selected are based on a rigorous review of ECRI’s incident investigations, medical device testing, and public and private incident reporting databases.ECRI Institute identified surgical stapler misuse as the number one health technology hazard in its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2020 report. ECRI Institute’s Top 10
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Emory Healthcare Breaks Ground on New Innovative Musculoskeletal Institute
Rendering of the Exterior Facility (Source: Emory Healthcare)
- Emory Healthcare breaks ground on the new Emory Musculoskeletal Institute to provide innovative orthopedics and spine care, physical therapy, imaging, ambulatory surgery, with clinical and discovery research support space.
- The Institute is the newest addition to Emory’s Executive Park health innovation district located in Brookhaven, GA.
Emory Healthcare has announced the groundbreaking of the new Emory
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AI-Powered ED Platform Vital Inks Pilot with Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub
- Vital launches pilot program with Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub for its AI-powered emergency department platform.
- Vital will deploy it’s ED platform in the emergency departments of Emory University Hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital.
- The pilot program marks the first partnership out of the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub.
Vital, an Atlanta, GA-based AI-powered software increasing productivity
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5 Approaches to “Diagnose” The Deeper Causes of Physician Burnout
Rick Sheff, MD, Chief Medical Officer, The Greeley Company
The number of physicians experiencing symptoms of burnout continues to be unsustainably high. Physicians cannot contribute to delivering and improving quality patient care if physicians continue to burnout at this rate, leave practice, drop out of medical school, or take their own life. Characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of accomplishment, burnout has a devastating impact on doctors and
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University Hospitals Health System to Deploy NextGen Population Health Platform
- University Hospital Health System has selected NextGen to deploy their population health platform to help enhance patient care. - NextGen Population Health platform aggregates and analyze patient data, and drive meaningful insights across clinical, financial and administrative data.University Hospitals Health System, a health system based in Northern Ohio has selected NextGen to deploy their NextGen Population Health platform that identifies gaps in care and enhances proactive patient health
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Heal Acquires Doctors on Call, Expands House Call Service to NYC
- Doctor house calls provider Heal expands to New York City with the acquisition of Doctors on Call.
- With the acquisition of Doctors on Call, Heal’s service footprint expands to more than 75 million Americans nationwide throughout Atlanta, GA, California, New York, Northern Virginia and D.C.
- Doctors On Call, founded in 1968 by Paul R. Rosenstock, MD., and now owned and operated by Heal, offers medical house calls for elderly and homebound patients throughout New York’s five
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Why APIs Bring Hope for Data Interoperability in Healthcare
Justin Rockman, VP of Business Development at Surgimate
One of the biggest obstacles to data interoperability is the slow and piecemeal progress of healthcare organizations (HCOs) towards digitalization. While the benefits of digitalization are clear; improved efficiency, reliability of data, and enhanced communication, just to name a few; the critical (and most challenging) piece of the puzzle, is being able to share critical patient data between systems in a way that makes it easily
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