Clinical

At the helm of Taiwan's national smart health project, the National Science and Technology Council facilitates partnerships between university hospitals and the ICT industry. Andrea Hsu, director general at the agency, discusses.

From preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance to visualization and predictive analytics, AI has many new roles to play to help surgeons do their best work.

Cybersecurity expert Richard Staynings of the University of Denver says the clinical information used for AI-enabled decision support models needs to be protected – but that's a tall order with so much of it to manage.  

A virtual nursing success story emerges from a large New York health system, and examples of the kinds of care coordination services that virtual nurses can handle during message triage, from Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare.

Also, Australia's aged care research centre has received additional funding to deploy AI.

Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.

Virtual reality holds huge potential, says Adam Hutchinson, founder and CEO of oVRcome, which recently ran a trial of its self-guided tool for social anxiety. He discusses the goal of closing the gap in access to VR treatment for providers and patients.

This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.

Why are the two often so disconnected? And what role can technology play in integrating them? A new CMS accountable care program aims to drive progress, and one expert explains what it means for providers.

This is part of an ongoing project to replace paper-based chemotherapy prescribing across South Australia.