Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

AdvaMed itemizes AI imperatives for ‘the entire healthcare ecosystem’
If you work with healthcare AI, you owe it to patients, families and communities to keep certain principles top of mind in everything you do.
6 things high-achieving orgs do to wring real value from AI
What makes an organization an AI leader? Demonstrating success in one of two pursuits.
A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan
As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”
4 points crucial to the nimble regulation of GenAI
With generative AI coming into its own, AI regulators must avoid relying too much on principles of risk management—and not enough on those of uncertainty management.
5 tips to learn AI from scratch and for free
There’s no shortage of resources for healthcare workers who wish they knew AI well enough to talk shop with the technology pros who develop the models. The problem is weeding through the offerings to get to what will really work for you.

Eric Topol: We're undergoing a digital revolution in healthcare

The convergence of IT leads to radical innovation and “the most exciting time in medicine,” said Eric Topol, MD, speaking during a webinar hosted by the Health Information Management and Systems Society. This digital revolution with new tools is transforming medicine in virtually every way, he said, a theme carried over from his book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care.

December 5, 2012

ONC blog: health IT withstood Sandy

A recent post on HealthITBuzz, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT's (ONC) blog, discussed how health IT systems fared during Hurricane Sandy. Paper patient records, not surprisingly, were another casualty of the storm but health IT held up well according to the post's author, Brett Coughlin, ONC health information specialist.

December 4, 2012

FDA publishes amendment to UDI proposed rule

The FDA published an amendment to its unique device identifier (UDI) proposed rule (77 FR 40736), published July 10.

November 28, 2012

NextGen, Microsoft partner for improved med adherence

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems has joined with Microsoft Corp. to develop and launch the NextGen MedicineCabinet application. With the goal being increased patient engagement, the NextGen MedicineCabinet allows customers to create, store, track and share personal medication records.

November 26, 2012

Defense, aviation processes could improve healthcare

Users tend to view new technology as foreign and contrary to established habits and associations, said Robert J. Szczerba, PhD, director of Lockheed Martin’s global healthcare initiatives. So, the underlying cultural environment must change and accept new technologies for those technologies to successfully improve healthcare. Szczerba spoke during a Nov. 20 webinar presented by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation.

November 26, 2012

GAO: Better oversight of federal agency IT needed

Federal agencies have failed to adequately assess whether billions of dollars invested in major IT projects will keep those projects on track to meet agency needs, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

November 21, 2012

Congressmen fight for state focus on quality improvement

Members of the U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to maintain a state-based structure for quality improvement organization (QIO) contracts as the department begins to implement QIO provisions included in a trade bill last year.

November 19, 2012

Cerner acquires behavioral health tech firm

Cerner has reached an agreement to acquire Anasazi Software, a developer of behavioral health technology, for an undisclosed sum.

November 14, 2012

Around the web

Cardiovascular Business

Payment cuts and beyond: Key takeaways for cardiologists from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals.

AI in Healthcare

A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”

Cardiovascular Business

FDA commissioner urges clinicians to join fight against medical misinformation

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."