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Clinician reviews medical notes on a tablet
By Andrea Fox 09:45 am October 30, 2024
The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, making up sentences and sections of text across millions of recordings. Tens of thousands of transcriptions could be faulty.
Oracle booth at HIMSS
By Mike Miliard 08:30 am October 30, 2024
Previewed at the company's annual summit, the electronic health record, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, offers secure automation across clinical workflows, enabling faster insights at the point of care with streamlined documentation and more.
By Bill Siwicki 11:26 am October 29, 2024
The tools have helped the health system grow demand for data-driven healthcare services, measure member attribution, and gain significant cost savings from identifying and acting on key healthcare utilization patterns.
Laptop on a mans lap sitting on an oak wood floor
By Andrea Fox 10:51 am October 29, 2024
The agency warns that a Western organized cybercrime group that leverages multiple ransomware variants and AI tools to commit advanced social engineering exploits may target healthcare data.
Oracle booth
By Andrea Fox 05:03 pm October 28, 2024
EHR customers could take part in the direct sharing of health information – including X-rays and MRIs – between providers, payers, government agencies and others under the TEFCA nationwide interoperability framework.
By Bill Siwicki 11:49 am October 28, 2024
The strategy has had a big impact on patient access, bed capacity, and heart failure and all-cause readmissions – not to mention appreciation of patients and family thankful to receive care safely at home instead of having to be admitted to the hospital.
Woman reviews medical imaging on a desktop computer
By Andrea Fox 10:29 am October 28, 2024
A new partnership will provide access to more than 75 regulatory-approved artificial intelligence solutions within a single platform and speed up the development of the health system's AI-accelerated learning initiatives, say its leaders.
Team behind SNUBH's HIMSS Stage 6 AMAM validation
By Adam Ang 12:07 am October 28, 2024
It is now the second APAC hospital presently validated at this stage.
A nurse talking to a senior patient in a wheelchair
By Adam Ang 12:01 am October 28, 2024
Subsyndromal depression is said to be five times more common than clinical depression among Singaporean seniors.
Lock in blue lights abstract
By Andrea Fox 10:49 am October 25, 2024
The Office of Management and Budget will consider HHS' approach to modernizing requirements for HIPAA covered entities charged with protecting ePHI against healthcare cybersecurity threats. Reports say the rule could be published by year's end.