Advancing Taiwan's Healthcare: AI and Accelerated Computing at NHRI & CGMH
2024 12 Jun
Taiwan’s leading medical centres, the National Health Research Institute (NHRI) and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH), are advancing biomedical research and healthcare through the integration of accelerated computing and generative AI. These institutions are leveraging cutting-edge technologies to revolutionise everything from imaging to patient...Read more
UCSF's IMPACC: Revolutionising AI Monitoring for Enhanced Healthcare
2024 04 Jun
The UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) and UCSF Health received a $5 million donation from Ken and Kathy Hao to develop the Impact Monitoring Platform for AI in Clinical Care (IMPACC). This platform aims to provide a continuous, real-time, and automated evaluation of AI technologies used in clinical settings,...Read more
Optimising Capacity and Data Liberation for Healthcare Access
2024 30 May
Patient access to healthcare has been a longstanding concern, one that predates the digital revolution and the current challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. It's a multifaceted issue stemming from various factors like affordability, transportation limitations, and the availability of appointments. While the healthcare system grapples with capacity...Read more
Enhancing Specialty Healthcare Access: A Collaborative Model for Virtual Care Delivery
2024 22 May
Access to specialty healthcare in the United States is already strained and projected to worsen due to a significant physician shortage. This is especially pronounced in rural areas. Henry Ford Health, a large metropolitan health system, offers advanced tertiary and quaternary services, but access gaps persist, particularly for complex cases like...Read more
Healthcare AI: Credibility, Safety & Accountability
2024 14 Mar
Dr. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform, highlighted the significant potential benefits and potential harm of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare during HIMSS 2024 . He emphasised the credibility issue in healthcare AI due to the lack of transparency and accountability in AI models. Halamka stressed the importance of strategies...Read more
Electronic Health Records Improve Scheduling Accuracy & Resources Utilisation
2024 13 Mar
Operating rooms (ORs) represent a significant investment and resource-intensive aspect of hospital operations, with approximately 60% of admitted patients undergoing treatment in these facilities. Precise scheduling of OR time slots is crucial for optimal resource utilisation. Accurate predictions of elective operation durations are essential to...Read more
The UK Accelerates the Use of AI to Tackle the Largest Health Challenges
2023 02 Nov
The UK prime minister recently announced a new mission to accelerate the use of AI in life sciences to address today's major health challenges. This funding will be targeted towards areas that AI has the greatest potential to create breakthroughs in treatments, as well as exploring how AI could address conditions with some of the highest mortality...Read more
Challenges in Patient and Caregiver Access to Health Data
2023 14 Sep
Despite over a decade of building interoperability across the care continuum, healthcare consumers continue to experience frustration due to the absence of smooth and timely access to their personal health information. In 2022, The Sequoia Project convened a group of diverse healthcare consumers, many of whom have dual roles as caregivers for...Read more
Microsoft and Epic Expand AI Partnership to Accelerate Generative AI's Influence in Healthcare
2023 31 Aug
Epic is leveraging Microsoft's AI expertise to introduce a broader range of tools designed to assist clinicians in efficiently managing their time and accessing vital information during patient care. They have been at the forefront of advancing generative AI within the healthcare industry By synergising Microsoft's expansive cloud and AI technologies...Read more
ChatGPT Displays Remarkable Accuracy in Clinical Decision Making
2023 23 Aug
A recent study, conducted by researchers at Mass General Brigham, has revealed that ChatGPT achieved an overall clinical decision-making accuracy of approximately 72%. This included various tasks from coming up with potential diagnoses to reaching final diagnoses and making decisions about care management. The large-language model (LLM)...Read more
New Project Gives Catalonia Citizens Access to Health Information
2023 23 Jun
The Catalan Department of Health has set up a project ‘Health data to share – Blue Button’ - a new system that allows citizens to get access to their own medical history. This is enabled through a health app known as ‘Catalonia on La Meva Salut (MyHealth)’. The Catalan public health system is the first in the European Union to create a tool that...Read more
Will Health Systems Accelerate Their Use of AI to Overcome Challenges?
2023 11 Apr
The Health Management Academy (The Academy) conducted a recent survey selecting executives to participate who have a strong familiarity with strategic decisions concerning AI solutions at their respective, leading health systems. The survey highlighted that almost half of executives (47.5%) are certain their health system is currently using AI...Read more
Epic Systems and Apple Collaborate to Improve Patient Access to EHR Data on Apple Devices
2022 15 Dec
Epic, holding the largest U.S. hospital market share among EHR vendors, is reportedly joining forces with Apple to develop a version of its EHR that would be easier to run on Apple devices. Apple works with healthcare organisations and with supported EHR vendors so that patients who use the Health app on their Apple device can have easy access...Read more
AI-based Voice Screening App Delivers Fast and Accurate Results for Parkinson’s and Severe COVID
2022 20 Oct
A research team of engineers and neurologists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) developed a voice screening app that could support the early detection of Parkinson’s disease and severe COVID-19. Although common symptoms of Parkinson’s include slow movement, tremors, rigidity and imbalance, diagnosing Parkinson’s...Read more
AI Detects Early Alzheimer’s Disease with Nearly 100% Accuracy
2021 04 Oct
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often precedes Alzheimer’s disease. Functional MRI (fMRI) can capture subtle signs of MCI, but interpretation is difficult. KTU researchers developed an AI that identified MCI in a small study (25 subjects). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is one of the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Researchers...Read more
New Initiative Seeks to Standardise COVID-19 Vaccination Records
2021 15 Jan
Leaders from healthcare and tech industry, including Mayo Clinic, Microsoft and Oracle, are joining forces in the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) to establish a standard for digital vaccination records. You might also like: COVID-19 Vaccines: Need for Global Tracking System The new initiative aims to provide every...Read more
Four Steps to Make COVID-19 Vaccinations Efficient
2021 04 Jan
The United States, where COVID-19 cases continue to rise, is racing to vaccinate as many people as possible to curb further spread of the virus. The inoculation drive, however, poses a major IT challenge as the country's data infrastructure lacks the capacity to efficiently track COVID-19 vaccine distribution and its use (who got vaccinated,...Read more
COVID-19 Vaccines: Need for Global Tracking System
2020 12 Dec
As the world's first COVID-19 mass vaccination programmes are underway in the UK, the U.S. and some other countries, a new paper (Vander Stichele et al. 2020) highlights the need for global monitoring of vaccine use (who was inoculated with which vaccine product, where and when) as well as its safety and effectiveness. You might...Read more
U.S. Patients’ Access to Health Information
2020 04 Nov
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published its 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan , which focusses on individuals’ access to their electronic health information. You might also like: FDA Focusses on Digital Health with New Centre of Excellence According to Donald W. Rucker, MD, National...Read more
Benefits of Imaging Exams Access Through Patient Portal
2020 18 Jun
If patients are able to use an online portal to access their imaging exams, this may have major benefits for patients’ quality of life and help reduce overall costs for both users and hospitals. You might also like: Better Outcomes Through Patient Portals A team at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Radiology...Read more
€6 Million from EIT Health to Accelerate COVID-19 Solutions
2020 29 Apr
In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, 14 health innovation projects will receive support of over €6 million from EIT Health as part of ‘Rapid Response’ EU-wide initiative. You may also like: EIT Awards €6 mln to Health Start-ups The selected projects will search for immediate and impactful solutions that health...Read more
AI Potential in Accelerating COVID-19 Drug Search
2020 18 Apr
Despite the hype, AI has already impacted healthcare and pharmaceuticals and now ML is being deployed to help find a vaccine against COVID-19. You might also like: First AI-Created Drug Trial The first company to put an AI-devised drug to human trial, Exscientia based in Oxford, is examining 15,000 drugs held by the Scripps research...Read more
AI Accuracy Matches Clinicians'
2019 30 Sep
More sophisticated technologies such as artificial intelligence are said to hold much promise in improving disease diagnosis . A new systematic review of relevant published articles, for instance, indicates that AI can detect diseases from medical imaging with the same accuracy as clinicians. The review included 82 studies spanning cardiology, breast...Read more
Facebook admits plan to access patient data
2018 10 Apr
Facebook seems to be embroiled in yet another controversy. The social media giant has confirmed a news report about its negotiation with U.S. medical institutions to access patient data for a proposed research project, which Facebook now claims has been put on hold. The report, from CNBC, said Facebook planned to use “hashing" to match individuals...Read more
mHealth Trial Cuts Costs, Improves Access
2015 26 Oct
A new mobile technology platform enables pharmaceutical companies to do remote monitoring of patients participating in clinical trials or drug studies, according to an article in MedCity News . Developed by Science37, a company founded by a group of scientists, the new mHealth platform works like a communication device and an EHR. “It’s a totally...Read more
Software Improves Accuracy of Spinal Surgery
2015 14 Apr
A software program that can be easily integrated with current procedures allows surgeons to better distinguish between vertebrae during spinal surgery. The first clinical evaluation of the LevelCheck software, which won an award from the North American Spine Society for Spine Technology of the Year, indicate that it achieves 100 percent accuracy in...Read more
Natural Language Processing Accurately Tracks Clinical Quality
2015 14 Apr
Hospital systems interested in mining text documents for medical knowledge that can improve the quality of care should consider using natural language processing (NLP). The text analysis technique allows computers to derive meaning from medical records, which can then be interpreted by clinicians and quality control experts. That makes it possible...Read more
Accessory Lens for Google Glass Expands Visual Field
2015 17 Feb
Medical professionals who use Google Glass for training and surgical applications may soon have an expanded visual field, thanks to an accessory lens which is awaiting US patent approval. The “Google Lens” device was developed by professors Jibo He and Barbara Chaparro at Wichita State University (WSU) in Kansas, with the help of WSU graduate student...Read more
Smartphone Accessory Detects STDs Via Finger Prick
2015 12 Feb
A new smartphone accessory can rapidly detect three infectious disease markers from a single drop of blood drawn from a finger. The device connects to a smartphone or computer and replicates the electrical, mechanical and optical functions of a lab-based blood test. It builds upon the previous work of the research team in miniaturising equipment for...Read more
Accenture and Philips Announce Proof of Concept App
2014 08 Aug
Innovative technology shows how ALS patients could gain greater control of their lives through brain, voice and eye commands Software connects Emotiv Insight Brainware to wearable display that allows wearers to command Philips Hue lighting, SmartTV and Lifeline products Royal Philips and Accenture have announced that they have developed...Read more
