The AI tools that radiologists need the most are ones that integrate their workflows and make it easier to access past images, said Dr. Jocelyn Chertoff, radiology chair at Dartmouth Health. When adopting AI to address their workforce shortage, hospitals need to involve clinicians early-on in decisions about what new tools to implement, she also noted.
Frexalimab, a Sanofi drug candidate with roots at Dartmouth’s medical school, has met the main goal of its Phase 2 test. The encouraging data for this program come as different experimental Sanofi MS drug nears its one-year anniversary under FDA clinical hold.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Russian hacker group Killnet has claimed responsibility for a string of recent cyberattacks that took more than a dozen hospital websites offline across the U.S. — including the websites for Cedars-Sinai, Michigan Medicine, and UPMC. The group has been active for at least a year and is known to target countries that support and/or send resources to Ukraine.
Rural health systems are met with certain obstacles that their suburban and urban counterparts evade, according to Dr. Joanne Conroy, Dartmouth Health’s president and CEO. Some of these include higher poverty rates and more difficulty attracting employees.
To help their patients better remember bits of information, more and more doctors are, with their patients' consent, recording appointments.
A worldwide effort, it is creating an online system that leverages joint knowledge and machine learning to map the best steps for a given patient.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
When it's time to connect a new device, the user points the "magic wand" toward the device to beam secret network information.
More complex understandings about the connection between brain activity and emotional responses could lead to better mental healthcare.
Pathologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock are looking to curb the use of unnecessary blood transfusions for non-bleeding patients by adding a “best-practice alert” in the patient’s EMR, with the hope of reducing risk of complications and costs. “We figured out how to harness the power of the electronic medical record to embed evidence-based transfusion criteria into the […]
At a panel on moving from volume to value at Advamed 2013, Dr. Clifford Belden of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center gave an example of exactly what medical device company value means to accountable care organizations. He compared four devices the ACO considered (or is still considering) for purchase in 2013, then said which ones they […]
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.