Search Tag: electronic health records
2025 18 Aug
The growth of foundation models has transformed natural language processing, genomics and biomedical informatics by leveraging large datasets and advanced architectures. With the increasing availability of electronic health records, there is an opportunity to adapt similar approaches for clinical predictive modelling. However, the choice of pre-training...Read more
2025 16 Aug
The introduction of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in Cyprus in 2019 marked a significant step towards modernising healthcare delivery within the General Health System (GHS). Despite this progress, efficiency levels among EHR users remain moderate, signalling the need for further improvements. A recent nationwide assessment of physicians’...Read more
2025 16 Aug
The introduction of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in Cyprus in 2019 marked a significant step towards modernising healthcare delivery within the General Health System (GHS). Despite this progress, efficiency levels among EHR users remain moderate, signalling the need for further improvements. A recent nationwide assessment of physicians’...Read more
2025 19 Apr
The acceleration of digital health transformation has become a strategic imperative across the European Region. With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting vulnerabilities in health systems, digital innovation has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance resilience, access and care quality. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its 53 Member States...Read more
2025 19 Apr
The acceleration of digital health transformation has become a strategic imperative across the European Region. With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting vulnerabilities in health systems, digital innovation has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance resilience, access and care quality. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its 53 Member States...Read more
2025 17 Jan
Electronic Health Records have transformed healthcare delivery by digitising patient information, streamlining data access and enhancing care coordination. However, the focus on existing functionalities often overshadows critical areas where innovation is still lacking. Addressing these gaps can unlock greater efficiency, collaboration and patient...Read more
2024 02 Sep
In recent years, the use of patient portals for communication between healthcare providers and patients has surged, driven by the increasing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and the demand for more accessible healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated this trend, highlighting the need for efficient, timely responses to patient...Read more
2024 18 Mar
Electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionised physicians' daily work, yet concerns persist regarding their negative impact on patient safety, work-life balance, and burnout. Physicians spend a considerable portion of their time on EHR-related tasks, often exceeding the time spent directly with patients. Standardising EHR use measurement...Read more
2024 18 Mar
Electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionised physicians' daily work, yet concerns persist regarding their negative impact on patient safety, work-life balance, and burnout. Physicians spend a considerable portion of their time on EHR-related tasks, often exceeding the time spent directly with patients. Standardising EHR use measurement...Read more
2024 30 Jan
It’s no secret that technological advances have completely revolutionised almost every industry - and the healthcare sector is no exception. The recent advent of digital health tools, such as online health courses , telehealth services, and wearable devices - coupled with some pretty momentous events - have transformed how healthcare services...Read more
2023 08 Dec
Beyond its roles in gaming or cryptocurrency, blockchain technology has found surprising traction in the medical domain. This revelation caught many off guard and gained momentum after the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have unearthed the profound significance of blockchain across diverse realms reliant on information data. It...Read more
2023 13 Oct
Hospital and ICU nosocomial sepsis screening for acutely ill and high-risk patients and daily measurement of PSP to diagnose nosocomial sepsis three to five days before the onset of symptoms. Introduction Sepsis is a major public health threat and is responsible for 11 million deaths per year (Rudd et al. 2020) among 48.9 million cases....Read more
2022 13 Sep
The low quality of health data is at the core of why we are not making the most of data science. However, new ways of dealing with acquiring those data can overcome this situation. Key Points High-quality health data are essential for healthcare delivery, health research and innovation. However, two key problems must...Read more
2022 19 Jul
Computer-based patient records were declared an essential technology for healthcare in 1991 by the National Academies. It was believed that patient records would support patient care, improve quality of care, enhance the productivity of healthcare professionals, reduce administrative costs, support clinical research and accommodate future developments...Read more
2022 08 Jul
An overview of how exchange of knowledge can advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare with total data privacy. Key Points Artificial Intelligence is playing an important role in taking better decisions across multiple sectors and the healthcare sector is not an exception. Rule of thumb: The larger the datasets the better...Read more
2021 30 Nov
When Prof. James Brenton was seeing one of his patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital recently for ovarian cancer treatment, he needed to review all her studies and treatments. The information was complex and lengthy: blood test results, genomic tests, imaging studies and reports from past therapy. Brenton hadn’t been able to attend the tumor board meeting...Read more
2021 10 Nov
Vlad Vahromovs is an accomplished tech executive with over 15 years of executive leadership experience delivering cutting-edge solutions to industry giants, He is the CEO of Intellectsoft , the technology partner of Fortune 500 companies including EY, Nestle, and Jaguar. Vlad holds modern courses degrees from Stanford and Erasmus University Rotterdam....Read more
2021 10 Nov
Vlad Vahromovs is an accomplished tech executive with over 15 years of executive leadership experience delivering cutting-edge solutions to industry giants, He is the CEO of Intellectsoft , the technology partner of Fortune 500 companies including EY, Nestle, and Jaguar. Vlad holds modern courses degrees from Stanford and Erasmus University Rotterdam....Read more
2021 12 Jul
The “Digital Anamnesis” concept and the proposed model may have useful implications for medical education, in a medical practice and for conceptualisation of modern Electronic Health Records Key Points Medical history taking is a historically, and key part of clinical practice and provides a correct diagnosis 76% of the...Read more
2020 05 Jun
Online patient portals help healthcare providers to reduce the time patients spend in the facility and to cut medical costs, a new study shows. You might also like: Patient responsibility for following up on test results The study , conducted by The University of Texas at Austin and published in June 2020 issue of MIS Quarterly...Read more
2019 22 May
The promise of personalised medicine Based on extensive market research, the precision medicine sector is fast becoming a multibillion market. It consists of innumerable companies involved in the research and development, manufacturing and commercialisation of several novel drugs and diagnostic kits to boost the precision medicine workflow...Read more
2019 27 Mar
LetDoctorsBeDoctors.com is a forum for healthcare professionals that allows them to communicate their vision for the future of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). (Watch video at end of article) The objective is for healthcare professionals to share their frustrations and concerns about EHR as well as make recommendations. It is believed that by...Read more
2019 26 Mar
#SIR19ATX: Research demonstrates value of Amazon Echo and Google Home during medical procedures AUSTIN, TEXAS — Smart speakers that are customarily used in your living room can be programmed to act as an aid to physicians in hospital operating rooms, according to new research presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s...Read more
2018 20 Nov
Machine learning can be used to analyse electronic health records and predict the risk of emergency hospital admissions, according to a new study from The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford has found. You might also like: Hospital readmissions and machine learning The study is published in PLOS Medicine [open...Read more
2018 25 Jul
There is a lot of variability in the way electronic health records are actually used by physicians, which highlights the need for basic standards in EHR design and implementation, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Researchers from the American Medical Association and MedStar Health...Read more
2018 11 Jul
New research published in Health Affairs suggests that use of electronic health records (EHRs) can help improve quality of care after all. During the six-year study period (2008-2013), researchers found that mortality rates were initially higher among hospitals with more digital capabilities, but fell over time, as hospitals learned how to work...Read more
2018 20 Jun
Electronic health record (EHR) systems were supposed to improve the documentation process and retrieval of patient information to help with diagnostic and treatment decisions. Instead, EHRs became a source of physician discontent and burnout. Most doctors hate EHRs, and it isn’t clear that they make patients any better off either. Now, experts...Read more
2018 23 May
Where is eHealth in Ireland heading and where could it lead us? Examining the state of eHealth, its challenges and opportunities at the European Association of Hospital Managers congress in Dublin. With digital innovations dramatically transforming every layer of the healthcare landscape, intensive discussions are required to manage...Read more
2018 01 May
Electronic health records were supposed to cut medical costs by driving down administrative expenses. However, despite a wider adoption of EHRs, reductions in billing costs have not been realised, says a new study by Harvard Business School and Duke University researchers. “The theory was that part of having electronic records was to lower the cost....Read more