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A New, Transparent AI Tool May Help Detect Blood Poisoning

The algorithm scans electronic records and may reduce sepsis deaths, but widespread adoption could be a challenge.

@brookeborel shared
On Oct 12, 2022
"Each year in the United States, sepsis kills over a quarter million people — more than stroke, diabetes, or lung cancer." New today @undarkmag by @SimarSBajaj https://t.co/w0lCtfLESp
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A New, Transparent AI Tool May Help Detect Blood Poisoning

A New, Transparent AI Tool May Help Detect Blood Poisoning

The algorithm scans electronic records and may reduce sepsis deaths, but widespread adoption could be a challenge.

Copying and pasting of EHR data may insert problems

Copying and pasting of EHR data may insert problems

Two seemingly innocuous computer commands, copy-and-paste, can lead to patient safety and reimbursement issues. Hospitals are developing policies for appropriate use of the shortcut, but ...

Patient Safety

Patient Safety

Reducing harm and preventing mortality across the continuum of care. ​

17 Organizations Awarded Grants to Test Innovations that Improve Diagnosis And Reduce Disparities

17 Organizations Awarded Grants to Test Innovations that Improve Diagnosis And Reduce Disparities

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) is issuing the first of three grant rounds, totaling $3 million, as part of the organization’s DxQI Seed Grant Program. The initial ...

What Doctors Need to Fulfill the Promise of Electronic Health Records

What Doctors Need to Fulfill the Promise of Electronic Health Records

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Genna Cohen and Llew Brown, who research and work with electronic health records (EHRs) at Mathematica, discuss challenges in adopting EHRs as ...

Medical Records Data Offers Doctors Hope of Better Patient Care

Medical Records Data Offers Doctors Hope of Better Patient Care

Healthcare professionals are beginning to tap the treasure trove of information locked in electronic health records to treat people in real time.

How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years

How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years

In the first installment of Healthcare IT News' newest feature series, five hospital and health system IT leaders describe how and where they're planning to spend on artificial intelligence ...

Using AI to Improve Electronic Health Records

Using AI to Improve Electronic Health Records

Smarter EHRs could reduce clinician burnout and improve patient care.

Challenges optimizing the after visit summary

Challenges optimizing the after visit summary

The after visit summary (AVS) is a paper or electronic document given to patients after a medical appointment, which is intended to summarize patients’ health and guide future care, ...

Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent

Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent

Over two years, a machine-learning program warned thousands of health care providers about patients at high risk of sepsis, allowing them to begin treatments nearly two hours sooner

The Case of Mistaken Intubation

The Case of Mistaken Intubation

An older man with multiple medical conditions was found hypoxic, hypotensive, and tachycardic. He was taken to the hospital. Providers there were unable to determine the patient's wishes ...

VA to resume Cerner medical record implementation early next year with new leadership

VA to resume Cerner medical record implementation early next year with new leadership

Officials have released an updated deployment schedule for the beleaguered $16 billion EHR modernization project.

The EMR has changed the doctor-patient duet into a ménage-à-trois

The EMR has changed the doctor-patient duet into a ménage-à-trois

The electronic medical record (EMR) has become a third entity into the doctor-patient relationship. That has created some complications.

How Christiana Care became a leader in implementing age-friendly health system principles

How Christiana Care became a leader in implementing age-friendly health system principles

Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del., is leading the way in implementing age-friendly care by adopting evidence-based practices called the 4Ms Framework. The John A. Hartford ...

Cerner Integrates Nuance’s Virtual Assistant Platform with Millennium EHR to Reduce Physician Burnout

Cerner Integrates Nuance’s Virtual Assistant Platform with Millennium EHR to Reduce Physician Burnout

Cerner expands its AI collaboration with Nuance to provide joint customers with more advanced natural language virtual assistant technology to navigate EHRs

Q&A: How can predictive algorithms reduce hospital readmissions?

Q&A: How can predictive algorithms reduce hospital readmissions?

Encompass Health is using a predictive analytics algorithm and other artificial intelligence tools to keep patients healthy and out of the hospital.