To ensure success with artificial intelligence in healthcare, provider organizations should bring together experts in AI, data science, and analytics, while vendors should provide strong customer...
Reducing cancer care disparities will require healthcare stakeholders to improve data integration and surveillance, increase cross-sectoral collaboration, and support innovative care models, according...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a request for information seeking information on how to leverage artificial intelligence and other tools to ensure proper claims payment, reduce...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released new guidance to further define the scope of the agency’s oversight of clinical decision support (CDS) software developed for providers,...
At the core of any meaningful healthcare intervention is medical data. A patient’s health history, prescription information, and demographic data are the building blocks of quality care delivery,...
Having staff pharmacists perform post-prescription audits reduced antibiotic use among patients, suggesting that these professionals can help lead antibiotic stewardship interventions, according to a...
Across the care continuum, all healthcare organizations are continuously seeking new and innovative ways to improve patient safety.
Medication errors, hospital-acquired conditions, and...
Leaders of rural public health systems often experience challenges with accessing quality data on certain communities or populations, making it difficult to track and address health disparities,...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded nearly $42 million in funding to enhance health IT at 49 Health Center...
One hundred percent of clinical trial sponsors cite the need for better data exchange among study partners, indicating that the industry is pushing for more streamlined trial processes and systems, a...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has endorsed and adopted several new policies to support the integration of artificial intelligence in medical practice and training.
At the association’s...
AMIA is encouraging FDA to modify its regulatory framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)-based software as a medical device (SaMD), particularly in areas of potential bias and...
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on CMS and ONC to implement stricter data privacy controls in their health IT proposals.
In comments submitted to CMS, AMA responded to the...
Mount Sinai has created a new chief data officer position to advance data-driven research, discovery, and patient care.
The institution has named Andrew Kasarskis, PhD as executive vice president and...
Using real-time data to improve patient safety and clinical decision support can lead to workflow and data quality issues, according to a study published in JMIR.
The digitization of healthcare...
Individuals’ social determinants of health, including education level, income, diet, and exercise, were strongly associated with the development of a chronic disease, suggesting that providers...
Healthcare executives believe that a lack of data standards and costs of solutions are major impediments to improved patient matching, according to a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Healthcare...
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, has announced his resignation from the top post at the Food and Drug Administration.
Gottlieb, who has taken a strong stance on public health issues such as opioid...
Emergency department (ED) visits for people with at least one chronic condition contributed to nearly 60 percent of all annual visits in 2017 and $8.3 billion in spending, says a report from...
Ninety-six percent of healthcare chief financial officers (CFOs) think that their organizations need to do more to leverage financial and operational data analytics, according to a report from Kaufman...
