Proceeding with Caution: The Impact of (Generative) AI on Healthcare and Life Sciences
Conclusion:
The benefits of AI in healthcare outweigh the negatives, but that does not mean organizations should jump in without careful consideration. Initiating the AI conversation and creating a concrete action plan are essential and reach out to the Dell team so we can help you navigate these challenging conversations.
Dell Technologies can help by working with healthcare, clinical, research, operational, and IT teams to create, and codify action plans that establish robust governance frameworks and ensure data integrity – ultimately protecting patient safety and privacy. Pandora’s box has been opened, and we c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Data Protection Dell Technologies Dell Technologies Worl Source Type: blogs
High Court Sticks With Flawed Racial ‐Redistricting Standard
Walter OlsonIn a long line of cases on race and redistricting, the Supreme Court has generally ruled thatsome race ‐conscious line drawing is okay in applying the federal Voting Rights Act, so long as things don’t go overboard with crazy lines and such. “Racial gerrymandering, even for remedial purposes, may balkanize us into competing racial factions,” warned Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the firs t case in this series,Shaw v. Reno (Shaw I, 1993). A 1995 case,Miller v. Johnson, further established that a map will generally be struck down if race was the “overriding, predominant” force in its incept...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Surveying Laboratory Tests From a Health IT Perspective
We read that “70% of today’s medical decisions depend on laboratory test results,” according to the CDC. This three-part series looks at modern tests from a health IT perspective. How can we make them more accurate and delivery faster results? Which ones can we move into the home? How do we eliminate wasteful, unnecessary tests? This first article offer an overview of tests and their context.
Overview of Testing
Gerry Miller, founder and CEO of Cloudticity, classifies the value of a test by several factors:
How easy is the test to acquire?
How complex is the test to administer?
How much does it cost?
Most im...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability CDC CLIA Cloudicity Direct to Consumer Lab Testing Dr. Yair Lewis Epstein Becker Green Gerry Miller Healthcare Interoperability IVD Laboratories Labs Navina Robert Hearn Sand Source Type: blogs
Technical Difficulties
My old ' puter was pretty much shitting the bed so I had to replace it. This required transferring its contents to the new machine, which ended up taking pretty much all day -- well, 3 1/2 hours plus commuting time with a tech support guy -- and then the rest of the afternoon restoring my logins, downloading cloud applications, and figuring out the new OS and whatnot. That got me thinking about the hassles connected with all the technology that ' s supposed to save us time and effort and amplify our powers. Somebody -- one of those radical environmentalist types like Murray Bookchin or E.F. Schumacher -- oh wait...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A 50-something with acute chest pain
A 50-something presented with acute chest pain.Here is her ED ECG. It was texted to me while I was out and about. He wrote:" Steve, what do you think about hyperacute T waves in this? 54-year-old female with CP. I initially interpreted as normal, but I am second-guessing myself, since she is hanging out in triage with me. "What do you think, Dear Reader?Analysis: There is ST elevation in multiple leads. There are tall T-waves in multiple leads. So one might think this is an acute OMI with STE and hyperacute T-waves. I immediately responded: Good question, but I think they are normal....
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 6, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
A 40-something male with resolving chest pain and a " Normal ECG " by computer and cardiology overread
A 40-something male presented by ambulance with one hour of chest pain that was improving after sublingual nitroglycerine and 325 mg of aspirin, chewed. Here is his initial ED ECG:What do you think?I read this ECG without any history as reperfusing inferior and posterior OMI due to the Q-wave in lead III with minimal STE and reciprocal ST depression in V2-V4 (which should never be there). The large upright T-wave in V2 is consistent with reperfusion.Any ST Depression Maximal in V1-V4 is OMI until proven otherwiseI sent this ECG with no information to Pendell. We send each other EKG by the dozens...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Knowing Your Patient: Helping Healthcare Organizations Prevent Insurance Fraud
The following is a guest article by Bala Kumar, Chief Product Officer at Jumio
The list of responsibilities for a CISO in healthcare is constantly growing. Today’s threat landscape requires them to plan for ransomware and malware attacks, protect against traditional vulnerabilities in legacy equipment, and mitigate the risk of internal threats.
With those competing priorities, fraud prevention does not always make its way to the top of the list of considerations, even when it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, fraud costs the U.S. healthcare industry more than $50 billion each year. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Bala Kumar CISO Healthcare Fraud Identity Fraud Jumio Know Your Customer Know Your Source Type: blogs
HealthSnap Raises $9 Million Series A for Continued Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform
The Investment, Led by Asclepius Growth Capital and Leading Health System Partners, will Enable Care Teams to Empower Patients with a More Personalized Remote-Care Experience
HealthSnap, a Miami-based virtual care management platform for chronic disease management, today announced a new round of financing totaling $9 million. The round was led by Asclepius Growth Capital, an SPV founded by David Jahns, a managing director of Galen Partners, and Steve Cashman, CEO at Caption Health and former CCO at InTouch Health, as well as new strategic investments from current business partners UnityPoint Health and Tampa General H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Asclepius Growth Capital Caption Health CCM Chronic Disease Management David Jahns Florida Funders Galen Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HealthSnap InTouch Health Source Type: blogs
What Is Medical Coding Automation And Its Potentials In Healthcare?
When it comes to the term ‘coding’, what comes to mind is probably programmers writing software. While this applies to the medical setting in the digital health age, traditionally, medical coding has referred to a specific process. It involves the conversion of medical records, generally from clinician’s texts, into structured codes based on a classification system for the appropriate patient diagnosis and relevant procedure.
The result is clinical information that is consistent and comparable over time and across healthcare departments. Such data can subsequently be used to inform relevant research, policies and,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Medical coding clinical coding AI AI in medical coding AI in hospitals digital health Source Type: blogs
Will the tin man kill us all or take us down the yellow brick road?
Will artificial intelligence (AI) lead to the extinction of humanity?
Well, the simplistic answer to that question, is a simple “no”, despite what every post-apocalyptic science fiction tale of our demise with an unhappy ending has told us. There are eight billion people on the planet, even with the most melodramatic kind of extinction event, there are likely to be pockets of humanity that survive and have the wherewithall to procreate and repopulate the planet, although it may take a while.
A less simplistic answer requires a less simplistic question. For instance: Will artificial intelligence lead to potentia...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 31, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT Misses the Mark in Healthcare – What It Needs to Succeed
The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center
The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI. While AI has been broadly deployed across industries for a decade, it remained mostly hidden from the typical user. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.
Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based applicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy AI Hallucination BeeKeeperAI Chatbots ChatGPT ChatGPT4 Cyber Risks Generative AI Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Director, Application Development and Integrations
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Application Development and Integrations position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in Manhattan, New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Application Development and Integrations Director Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
The Constitutionality of Brain Searches
Wayne Unger (Gonzaga University), The Constitutionality of Brain Searches, Hastings Const. L.Q. (2023): If technology could read your mind and capture your thoughts as storable and processable data, would that frighten you? Recent advancements in brain-computer interfaces will likely make... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 30, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The power of being present
I’ve been listening to Prof Kevin Vowles recently, as he presents his approach to pain using ACT. He made an important point about mindfulness that resonated with me: it’s that when learning to be fully present, it’s not how long we stray from our point of focus, nor even how many times we come back, the learning is that we can come back. Again and again and again.
There are arguments about what mindfulness is, and I’m certain these will continue, but for the purposes of this post and for people just learning mindfulness, I’m defining it as the deliberate practice of attending to a focus (t...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 28, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Coping strategies Professional topics Research hypnosis mindfulness Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
How AI Is Transforming the Patient-Provider Relationship
The following is a guest article by Ronen Lavi, Co-Founder and CEO at Navina
As Paul Starr famously wrote about in The Social Transformation of American Medicine, the healer’s relationship with the patient was historically perceived not unlike a religious leader’s relationship with a parishioner: an opportunity to get closer to a higher spiritual plane.
Today, with patients routinely “consulting” with online resources, self-diagnosing, or requesting medication they saw on a television ad, the physician-patient relationship has materially changed. That said, the objectives have not: patients wish for their doctors...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Algorithmic Bias Artificial Intelligence Care Delivery EHR Generative AI Healthcare Barriers Navin Source Type: blogs
