Mike Miliard

In the rapidly changing modern healthcare environment, it is no longer tenable to collect patient feedback in an old-fashioned manner.

With the COVID-19 pandemic having already set the stage for a massive increase in telehealth consults, the research firm sees an even bigger future – as demand for one-stop virtual visits and remote patient monitoring grows as much as seven-fold.

POCUS technology from Butterfly Network expands screening capabilities, offering "an immediate and clear picture of what’s happening in a patient’s lungs."

In a HIMSS20 Digital presentation, leaders from Stanford describe how patient experience was improved across primary care and other service lines by developing dynamic dashboards with insights for C-suite, clinicians and staff.

The tools could help payers manage the demands of standards-based interoperability challenges, and also offer security, identity management and consent management.

The technique, called federated learning, is designed to enable collaboration among far-flung research organizations on machine learning models, while still protecting patient privacy.

Speech-recognition tool enabled a Mississippi hospital to expand its AI-driven tools to support its CDI program.

Georgia employers can use the AI-powered application to assess employees' risk for exposure and get tailored guidance for reopening strategies, and the tool could be scaled nationwide.

Persistent flaws in the ability to accurately ID and match patient records are hindering two must-haves on the road to reopening: contact tracing and, eventually, vaccine administration.

As apps and devices become more ubiquitous, complex and bandwidth-intensive, health systems need a strategy to manage the quality and integrity of their network infrastructures.