What You Should Know:
- A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate forms for notifiable disease reports increases reporting and completeness of information.
- The system extracts data from the Indiana Health Information Exchange and fills in the information fields on the official state reporting form.
- The form is delivered to an ambulatory care clinic using the HIE network, acting as a
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UCLA Health’s COVID-19 Swab Shortage Solved With 3D-Printed Swabs
What You Should Know:
- With COVID-19 numbers rising in California, an innovative project has solved UCLA Health's testing swabs shortage with 3D-printed swabs.
- In just over a month, and after conducting rigorous clinical testing of several 3D-printed swab prototypes on patients with COVID-19, UCLA Health was granted permission from the Food and Drug Administration to use the most promising design.
An innovative effort launched in April and led by a fellow in the UCLA
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Mount Sinai Researchers Develops AI Algorithm to Detect COVID-19 from CT Scans
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai researchers develop a unique artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect COVID-19 based on CT scans and patient data.
- The Mount Sinai team integrated data from those CT scans with the clinical information to develop an AI algorithm. It mimics the workflow a physician uses to diagnose COVID-19 and gives a final prediction of positive or negative diagnosis.
Mount Sinai researchers
are the first in the country to use
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Boston Children’s Hospital Taps Kyruus to Power Digital Access Initiatives
What You Should Know:
- Boston Children’s Hospital has selected Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling company, to power its digital transformation initiative centered on patient access.
- Boston Children’s will leverage Kyruus’ solutions to create a convenient online experience for families with provider search capabilities and appointment self-scheduling functionality.
Boston
Children’s Hospital announced it has selected Kyruus, a leader in provider
search and scheduling
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Machine Learning Will Transform Medicine, but Only if We Use it Right
World chess champion Garry Kasparov made headlines all over the world in 1997 for something that he probably wasn’t very excited about. He lost a chess match. To a computer.
It was an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue and its victory in that New York City match marked the first time a reigning world chess champion had been defeated by a computer under tournament conditions. It was also a symbolically significant event, the first sign that artificial intelligence could become equal to or even
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Scientists Develop Machine Learning Algorithms Using EMR Data to Predict Dementia
- Researchers develop and tested machine learning algorithms using EMR data to identify patients who may be at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
- Researchers gathered data on patients from the Indiana Network for Patient Care using the information on prescriptions and diagnoses, which are structured fields, as well as medical notes, which are free text, to predict the onset of dementia.
Information gathered from routine visits to the doctor is enough to
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Research: Connected Inhalers Link Ozone Exposure to Asthma Symptoms
- Today, UCSF, CommonSpirit Health, UC Berkeley and Propeller announced research that uses data from connected inhalers to show that exposure to ozone in the air leads to more frequent asthma symptoms.
- This is the first study to use a digital health platform to study the impact of ozone on respiratory disease. By attaching sensors to the inhalers of 287 people with asthma in California, researchers were able to track their medication use.
- When ozone concentrations in the air
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Grand Rounds Launches Population Health Solution to Address SDoH
- Grand Rounds announced the launch of Premium Navigation, the company’s new and most comprehensive population health solution to address social determinants of health (SDoH). Users now have a single entry point for all their healthcare needs, clinical and beyond.- Premium Navigation simplifies the ever-complicated healthcare experience. It connects members with their clinical care team for case management while guiding them around clinically appropriate benefits and advocacy support. Grand
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AMIA President & CEO, Douglas B. Fridsma Steps Down
- Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, Ph.D., FACP, FACMI, FAMIA is stepping down as President and CEO of The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
- Karen Greenwood, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer will serve as interim CEO while the Board of Directors begins the search for a replacement.
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the departure of President and CEO Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, Ph.D., FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, effective January 1, 2020.
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5 Reasons Why A Single, Integrated EHR Will Not Solve Interoperability
A recent survey of health system IT, informatics, business, and clinical staff revealed that less than 40% of healthcare executives believe their organizations successfully share clinical data with external health systems, payers, and other partners. When asked what steps their organizations are taking to address interoperability challenges, 60% of respondents reported their organizations were moving to a single, integrated EHR. In addition to costing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars,
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