As AI chatbots become a surrogate for human connection amid a national mental health crisis, experts are worried about these tools’ lack of safeguards — with research showing the models can provide dangerous, sometimes fatal, advice. Regulators and providers alike are scrambling to catch up with a technology that evolves faster than humans are able to understand.
With the help of an academic research sponsorship grant from Amazon Web Services, the Boston-based medical center has initiated a multi-year program to research how machine learning can improve operational efficiency and patient care.
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The health tech exploration center's primary focus is on exploring new technologies and assessing which ones are scalable across blockchain, telemedicine, the Internet of Things, and machine learning.
In a phone interview, Dr. John Halamka, who recently co-authored a book on precision medicine, spoke about various aspects of the field and its future.
The study identified 18 eligible randomized controlled trials of 22 smartphone apps, with outcome data from 3,414 participants.
"It's perverse to say people are unengaged and then keep them uninformed," said "e-Patient" Dave deBronkart at MedCity ENGAGE.
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There is risk associated with the use of social media because any content posted can reflect unfavorably on the physician as well as on the hospital.
As hospitals expand to serve patients at the national and international level, as payment models require more home care/wellness care and as consumers demand the same kind of convenience from healthcare that they get from other industries, telemedicine will expand and mature.
Although medical charges (i.e., what’s billed) are known to be detached from reality, I found this EOB particularly galling.
The move to cloud-based systems in healthcare has gained significant momentum of late, notably with athenhealth’s recent acquisition of Beth Israel Deaconess’ webOMR, but skepticism and caution still abound in many corners, particularly in the hospital world. Seattle Children’s Hospital is one such provider in that camp, with Chief Information Security Officer Cris Ewell laying […]
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Deloitte’s Healthcare Practice today unveiled its latest offering in the EHR space with Evergreen, which it says can help reduce hospital IT costs by as much as 30 percent and improve analytics and reporting. It can do so by using what Deloitte calls a “global staffing model” and a standardized design that is easy to […]
BIDMC has self-developed its core clinical information systems for many years. We certified all our applications for the 2011 and 2014 ONC criteria, attesting to Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2 in every appropriate year. BIDMC has hundreds of person-years invested in our web-based, cloud-hosted in-patient and out-patient applications. The culture of BIDMC has […]
Athenahealth and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka made a big splash this morning with news of athena’s acquisition of the renowned Boston teaching hospital’s web-based EHR system. The move is notable in that it gives athena significant credibility as it pursues the big hospital market, but it also underscores both immediate and […]
Athenahealth has purchased Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s webOMR, a web-based clinical application EHR developed by the academic medical center, which should put athenahealth in a stronger position to capture hospital market share. In January, cloud-based EHR vendor athenahealth announced it had acquired Atlanta-based Razor Insights, as part of a move into the small rural […]
The potential for wide-scale data sharing across healthcare is gaining in equal parts reality and complexity, panelists at Redwood MedNet’s conference said last week in California. Despite some significant challenges that need to be overcome, the consensus was that the health data revolution will arrive sooner than later. Keynote speaker John Halamka, CIO at Beth […]