Quality and Safety

Longtime healthcare IT researcher Julia Adler-Milstein is planning major initiatives around digital health equity, artificial intelligence and diagnostic innovation

 Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld sworn in as the first openly gay person to serve as AMA president.

The Illinois Catholic health system has signed a nonbinding letter of intent with OSF Healthcare to acquire the Peru campus.

The company says the deep learning-enhanced technology can acquire MRI images up to 12 times faster than conventional methods, matching the speed of MRI to the speed of physiology.

The large language model is still in testing, but the AI tool had a median accuracy score of 77.8% compared to a physician score of 62.8%. The code base is now available to all healthcare organizations.

Jennifer Eaton of IDC Research details steps provider organizations can embark on to help their patients – and their overall quality.

The health system is prioritizing "patient safety, privacy and ethical considerations" as it pushes forward to realize positive impacts from artificial intelligence and machine learning, says CIO Cris Ross.

Kurt DelBene spoke this week about how small contractors can get up to bat for more Veterans Affairs IT projects, and discussed how too much parsing on major federal initiatives – like Healthcare.gov, which he helped rescue – can lead to failed strategy.

The research, which builds on a training approach similar to that of ChatGPT, uses image-based modeling for ECG analysis – potentially enabling more effective heart function assessment and diagnosis of heart attacks and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Masked in broad datasets, distinct subgroups within Asian, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander populations can be subject to racialized health outcomes, according to researchers at Kaiser Family Foundation.