Artificial Intelligence

The coronavirus emergency has improved digital health in the Italian healthcare system, but many fear a rude awakening unless major strides are made to advance digitisation, as discussed in a recent HIMSS Italian Community webinar.

Automation can help manage high patient call volumes, unwieldy medical device data and daily employee health screening, says Dr. David Rhew, chief medical officer and VP of healthcare at Microsoft.

Predictive analytics platform CLEW's ICU tool uses artificial intelligence to help identify patients with a greater likelihood of respiratory failure or hemodynamic instability.

The RF-ReID technology, developed at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, can assess vital signs and take the "collective pulse" in congregate settings by analyzing wireless signals.

Virtual care may be the way of the future for treating diabetes, says Julia Hu, founder and CEO of Lark Health.

In 2018 alone, approximately 12,000 audits performed for broad-spectrum antibiotic use at SGH revealed that 20 per cent to 30 per cent of these prescriptions were inappropriate.

The digital interventions have led to improvements in the numbers of preventable emergency department visits, said experts from the New York health system during a HIMSS20 Digital presentation.

AWS’ chief medical officer offers some useful historical perspective, while experts from Cerner, Geisinger and Gyant discuss some of the most promising and potentially transformative use cases for artificial intelligence in healthcare today.

Clinical Content Search, a new embedded voice-assistant tool in Dragon Medical One, links physicians with relevant CDS topics from UpToDate in response to spoken questions.

The machine learning-powered app has gained attention as a way to reshape pain therapy and enhance self-care for oncology, orthopedics, women’s health, migraine headaches and more.