An analysis of data submitted to CMS by around 15,000 U.S. nursing homes has found 226,500 residents were at heightened risk for contracting COVID-19 in August.
Harvard researchers at Mass General Brigham have built an AI chatbot that can automatically triage patients whenever they call or show up in disaster-level numbers.
Almost twice as many healthcare leaders anticipate a fairly fast return on their AI investment than had that expectation two years ago—59% now vs. 31% then. And only 5% aren’t currently recruiting workers with skills to help make it happen.
Someone somewhere introduced the theory that a COVID-19 vaccine will alter the DNA of anyone unwise enough to receive it. Did that person know this to be a crock and put it out there just for the fun of it?
California is the state with the most nursing homes to rate as high-performing with five stars in U.S. News & World Report’s latest listing of the best such facilities in the country.
If everything goes according to its authors’ vision, healthcare consumers will finally be using their smartphones to easily access all their medical information.
Last fall CMS whittled a field of 300-something entrant teams in its AI Health Outcomes Challenge to 25 semifinalists. This week the agency revealed seven finalist entities, one of which will claim the grand prize of up to $1 million next spring.
A little more than a year after inking a 10-year pact on digital healthcare development, Mayo Clinic and Google Health have launched their first major research project together. Interestingly, it directly involves AI.
