Written by Andy Smith, MTM publisher The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMMS) event, designed to ‘transform healthcare through information and technology’ descended on Orlando, Florida, this week filling the original expo... Read more
Yitu Healthcare has successfully used natural language processing (NLP) to achieve high-accuracy rates on par with doctors when reading electronic health records and generating patient diagnoses. The result is published on Nature Medicine under... Read more
Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa are using an Operating Room Black Box (OR Black Box) to study whether improving teamwork and communication among operating room staff can make surgery safer for patients. “When I was a... Read more
At HiMSS19, Michael Sanders, FAAFP, MD, chief medical and informatics officer of Flagler Hospital, led a session on the hospital’s progress in tackling clinical variation with artificial intelligence (AI). Applying Ayasdi’s Artificial... Read more
The winners of the 2019 Microsoft for Healthcare Innovation Awards were announced at HIMSS19 during the Microsoft Health Forum. Each year, the awards acknowledge health and life sciences organizations and their technology solution partners that are... Read more
Oregonians hurt by a car crash or another traumatic event can mend their injuries with the help of skilled and seasoned U.S. Army healthcare professionals stationed at OHSU, in Portland, Oregon, through a new medical exchange program. OHSU is one of two... Read more
