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A physician expert offers a look at the role virtual imaging can play in helping advance nuclear medicine expertise, driving progress in radiopharmaceuticals and enabling an expected surge in the medical isotope market driven by targeted cancer treatment.

New LEAP in Health IT money from ONC is meant to find and fund innovative new approaches to evaluating EHR data quality for machine learning models and driving IT adoption by behavioral health providers.

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.

So says Dr. Vinay Vaidya, CMIO at Phoenix Children's, who shows how he and his team successfully changed the documentation perceptions of the hospital's clinicians – ultimately improving patient outcomes.

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.

Orbis International has partnered with surgical training company FundamentalVR to train students in ophthalmic surgery to treat cataracts using VR. Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis, explains.  

"It would be political malpractice for Congress to sit on its hands and not respond to this report," says AMA president.

Christine Antorini, former minister of education for Denmark, talks about her decision to enter nursing school after her political career and calls for policymakers to provide more flexible educational opportunities for working adults.

They have a crucial role in improving healthcare technology usability, from testing to leadership, says Olga Kagan, RN, consortial faculty and associate adjunct professor at CUNY School of Professional Studies and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.

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.