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LA Children's received the funding to predict how critically ill children handle medication by applying machine learning to identify clinically significant patterns from the ICU data of 20,000 patients.
The seven members with medical, informatics, IT, data and health information exchange expertise will serve a three-year term on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.
The academic medical center uses tele-sitter and virtual ICU platforms for a program it calls Virtual Deterioration.
A new KLAS report examines which PM vendors best deliver on customers’ expectations for midsize and large practices, and for independent and owned practices, with athenaIDX, Epic and NextGen receiving high marks.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the American Medical Association, Race Forward and several partners launched Rise to Health to transform healthcare with shared solutions and collective actions.
The proposal provides a "valuable tool to support the electronic submission of healthcare information," said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. It would reduce provider burden and could save more than $450 million a year.
While no CMS systems were breached, the agency notified Medicare beneficiaries potentially involved about the exposure of their PII and/or PHI.
"As clinicians are passionate about patients receiving quality healthcare delivered in a timely manner, I see telehealth programs being the key to improving patient outcomes and the overall healthcare experience," he says.
Racial minorities and women are continuing to make inroads into the field as total enrollment in medical colleges increases.
Sanjula Jain, senior vice president of market strategy and chief research officer at Trilliant Health, discusses the future of virtual care and how emerging retail players will affect the industry.