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The Clinical Promise and Ethical Pitfalls of Electronic Phenotyping

October 19, 2023 - As information technology (IT) methods for disease surveillance, predictive analytics, and clinical decision support become more advanced, big data mining will be crucial to ensure tools use large, high-quality datasets. Data mining can enable electronic phenotyping— a process to query electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical information systems to extract patient...


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How Can Predictive Analytics Help ACOs Boost Value-Based Care Delivery?

by Shania Kennedy

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) play a critical role in shifting the healthcare system toward value-based care, but population health management and care coordination initiatives require ACOs to invest in new technologies to achieve...

Exploring Mayo Clinic’s AI Efforts to Enhance Organ Transplants

by Shania Kennedy

Organ transplants represent one of many revolutionary advancements within the field of medicine over the past century. Since the first successful human kidney transplant in 1954, the number of treatment options for once life-threatening or...

Investigating Use Cases for AI, IT Tools in Emergency Medical Services

by Shania Kennedy

Emergency medical services (EMS) and first response teams play an instrumental role in providing timely, life-saving healthcare. To help make emergency care more efficient and improve patient outcomes, many EMS organizations are evaluating...

Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesiology

by Shania Kennedy

In anesthesiology, as in all medical specialties, clinicians strive to support patient safety and improve outcomes. Some anesthesiology professionals are investigating how advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine...

Using AI to Support Healthcare Amid a Mental Health Provider Shortage

by Shania Kennedy

Healthcare provider shortages are nothing new, but recent shifts in care-seeking behaviors and rising demand for health services illustrate some of the unique challenges healthcare organizations face in addressing these shortages. A 2022...

How Elevance Health, MVP Health Care Are Leveraging Data Analytics

by Shania Kennedy

Payers rely on accurate, high-quality data to make health insurance processes more efficient and support improved patient outcomes. However, each beneficiary generates a plethora of data points throughout their care journeys that payers...

How NorthShore Uses AI, NLP to Tackle SDOH in the Emergency Department

by Shania Kennedy

Identifying and tackling social determinants of health (SDOH) are crucial aspects of any health equity strategy. But establishing how best to capture patients’ SDOH needs and develop interventions in the clinical setting remains a...

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Support Medication Adherence

by Shania Kennedy

Medication adherence remains a persistent, complex challenge for the healthcare industry as drug costs rise and prescription adherence rates sink. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that adherence to prescribed...

How Risk Stratification Can Help Combat Preterm Birth Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

In 2021, preterm births, which occur when an infant is born before 37 weeks gestational age, affected roughly one out of every 10 infants born in the US. The rate of preterm births rose 4 percent in a single year from 10.1 percent in 2020...

How ACOs Use Data Analytics to Improve Outcomes, Reduce Financial Risk

by Shania Kennedy

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have significantly influenced the shift in the healthcare payment process from fee-for-service models to value-based care since their introduction in 2010 through the Affordable Care Act...

How AI, Digital Screening Tools Can Help Flag Early Cognitive Decline

by Shania Kennedy

Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) present a challenge for clinicians as the disease burden and toll on individuals, caregivers, and health systems rise. Currently, the National Institute of...

Exploring Data De-Identification in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

Adequately de-identifying healthcare data is critical for health systems, payers, and other stakeholders to ensure HIPAA compliance. However, the advent of newer technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and connected devices, has...

How a Digital ‘Baseball Card’ Supports Care Management

by Shania Kennedy

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) highlights care management as a fundamental means of managing the health of defined populations and supporting the triple aim of healthcare. AHRQ and the Center for Health Care...

Using Artificial Intelligence for Aneurysm Rupture Risk Monitoring

by Shania Kennedy

Cerebral aneurysms, also known as intracranial or brain aneurysms, present a unique challenge for clinicians, as most are small dilations that occur at weak points along the arteries of the brain and have no symptoms. However, as the...

Using a Patient-Reported Outcome Tool to Make EHR Data Actionable

by Shania Kennedy

EHRs play a critical role in guiding care coordination and delivery, but interoperability challenges can prevent EHR data from being used effectively to improve patient care. Addressing these issues is a major focus for healthcare...

Top Health IT Analytics Predictions, Priorities for This Year

by Shania Kennedy

As health systems make plans to address challenges caused or worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as efficiency and patient access to care, many are turning to health IT tools such as data analytics and artificial intelligence...

Exploring Decentralized Architecture Networks in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

Efficient and secure health data interoperability is a top priority for providers, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders, but enabling interoperability remains a major challenge for many organizations across the country. To support...

How Does the White House AI Bill of Rights Apply to Healthcare?

by Shania Kennedy

In October, the White House unveiled its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, providing guidelines for the design, use, and deployment of AI-based tools to protect Americans from harm as the use of these technologies continues to grow in...

Mass General, Mayo Clinic, & More Share AI, Analytics Plans for Next Year

by Shania Kennedy

As 2022 draws to a close, health systems are gearing up for new opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. For many, top priorities from last year, such as patient access to care and efficiency improvements, will carry over into 2023....