Hospitals
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Providers
Intermountain Health CISO: The Industry Needs Better Transparency After Cyberattacks
After a healthcare cyberattack, the impacted organization often doesn’t want to divulge a lot of information, Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker said last week at HIMSS. However, he thinks healthcare organizations should be more transparent with their peers after an attack because “no one system operates independent of everybody else.”
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Hospitals, Providers
GE HealthCare & Mass General Brigham Have a Plan to Accelerate Their AI Research
At HIMSS, GE HealthCare and Mass General Brigham announced that they are integrating foundation models into their collaborative AI research and development. Foundation models could help developers create healthcare AI tools “10 times faster than in the past,” according to Parminder Bhatia, GE HealthCare’s chief AI officer.
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Improving health in one of the most complex and costly chronic conditions
Kidney care in the U.S. needs an overhaul. Changing today’s expensive, disconnected care model requires moving from volume to value.
Misha Palecek, Chief Transformation Officer, DaVita Kidney Care
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Five Ways Hospitals Can Reduce Industry Waste (While Recovering Dollars)
Between the environment and your healthcare organization’s balance sheet, waste is a big deal. These promising strategies can help solve that problem.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Hospitals, Providers, SYN
Mount Sinai CEO: Hospitals Will Start Seeing ROI from Their AI Investments in a Couple Years
Health systems aren’t seeing a ton of ROI when it comes to their AI investments quite yet, as use of the technology is still in an iterative stage. However, Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr thinks that is likely to change in the next couple years.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
6 Mistakes Digital Health Startups Make When Seeking Funding or Customers
At ViVE, investors and health system executives shared their biggest pet peeves when it comes to pitches from digital health startups.
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Hospitals and Health System Executives Say Change Management is Essential for Innovation
A panel discussion of hospital executives at the ViVE event last month offered insight into the challenges of implementing innovation and what they have learned from their experiences.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
These 3 Changes Must Occur for Hospitals to See Greater ROI from Their AI Investments
Most health systems aren’t seeing a huge ROI from their AI investments yet. There are three changes that must happen in order for health systems to start seeing a greater ROI when it comes to AI deployments, according to Michael Kalishman, chief venture officer at Virginia-based Sentara Health.
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Healthcare Docket: A Near Doubling of Hospital System Cyberattacks Triggers Bipartisan Bill
Increasing costs and healthcare cybersecurity worries have sparked calls for new laws. The bipartisan “Strengthening Cybersecurity in Health Care Act” by four senators would require the HHS to perform routine evaluations of its systems and deliver biannual reports on practices and progress.
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Veteran Suicide Statistics Are Horrifying — What Is the VA Doing to Help?
Research shows that an average of 17.5 veterans die by suicide each day. At ViVE 2024, Shereef Elnahal, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ under secretary for health, declared that even one veteran dying by suicide is too many — and promised that the VA is pursuing partnerships aimed at addressing this harrowing problem.
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Clinical Care Capacity Planning
Learn how to manage clinical care capacity more efficiently during uncertain times.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
16 Health Systems Help Launch Health & Wellness Marketplace
Vale Health announced its launch on Monday at ViVE. The startup’s platform helps health systems connect their patients to health and wellness products, which are becoming increasingly interesting to consumers. Vale has 16 founding health systems partners that will go live with the platform, with the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network being the first.
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The Healthcare AI Question No One Wants to Answer
At ViVE 2024, Tarun Kapoor — chief digital transformation officer at New Jersey-based Virtua Health — highlighted a conundrum he thinks may be the reason why AI hasn’t been able to move the needle when it comes to solving the clinician shortage.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
Meet the Marketplace Providers Are Using to Overcome the ‘Notorious Challenge’ of Radiology AI Adoption
About 80% of all FDA-approved healthcare AI applications are related to radiology — but due to a massive workforce shortage, radiologists don’t have the time to explore, choose, validate and implement the tools available to them. Some providers are using a radiology AI marketplace called CARPL to address this problem, including Massachusetts General Hospital and University Hospitals.
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At ViVE 2024, Get a Glimpse of the State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Mari Savickis, Vice President of Public Policy with CHIME, will be moderating a panel discussion as part of the Cybersecurity Pavilion at the ViVE 2024 event in Los Angeles, scheduled for February 25-28. She said her organization anticipates several developments addressing cybersecurity this year.
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Tools for Better Data Interoperability Are Here — But Providers Aren’t Adopting Them
There are plenty tools and data sharing standards available to foster a more cohesive and integrated approach to healthcare interoperability. However, providers aren’t really adopting these tools, experts said during a recent panel.
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These 3 Pieces of Wisdom Could Help Hospitals Avoid Failure When Adopting New Tech
During a recent panel, three health system executives shared some of the most important lessons they’ve learned from the digital initiatives they’ve worked on in the past couple years. Some of their nuggets of wisdom included starting with a problem instead of a solution and being sure not to use financial ROI as the only metric for success.