Andrea Fox
While all facilities are reportedly open and providing care, disruptions continue, with some provider sites unable to fill prescriptions, certain procedures rescheduled and delays in diagnostic imaging and testing.
Researchers compare machine learning models to traditional alerts for critically ill adults, while a new real-world GLP-1 data trove incorporates unstructured data. Also, RapidAI earns another FDA clearance for rapid stroke imaging.
As part of its annual renegotiation of the agency's EHR modernization efforts, three senators are asking the Veterans Affairs to add more opportunities to hold the vendor responsible for the quality and safety of its deployments.
Meanwhile, staff at the health system say they don't have patient orders and can't page doctors. As it works to restore clinical systems, Ascension says it's working with law enforcement and sharing threat intelligence to help prevent similar attacks.
Nursing and IT
For nurse practitioners and physician assistants in states with restrictive practice rules, it matches them with other clinicians, automates licensing compliance and provides EHR-agnostic chart sharing and a HIPAA-compliant chat.
Project Heal will track health misinformation trends and generate adaptable counter-messaging for public health agencies to use in their efforts to address false claims.
Also: OM1 now offers a platform that translates population patterns for clinical decision-making at the provider level.
Nursing and IT
Nurse groups are focused on fixing what they say are untenable nurse-to-patient ratios. As legislation mandating staff ratios looms, AI and virtual care may offer a way forward.
Led by a Mass General quality and safety veteran, the command center enables the Department of Public Health to respond to any possible clinical and other challenges at the state's hospitals owned by the ailing health system.
Taking a thoughtful approach to AI-enabled patient engagement tools is key to helping ensure health equity and enabling better outcomes, say experts from the University of Westminster.