To wrap up this year’s Nurses Week our monthly roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry is focused on nursing. A record number of nurses are leaving the profession while a record low admission rate for incoming students.
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By Devin Partida – Technology is central to modern health care, including making comprehensive medical treatment equally available and accessible to everyone. Equity is a significant concern today, especially as data highlights persisting disparities among different demographics.
By Dan Matthews – The use of data and analytics can help healthcare become more accurate, efficient, and personalized to individual patient needs. At hospitals and individual practices, healthcare professionals are already collecting and using big data to enhance telemedicine, and optimize staffing.
By David Burda – Years ago, in a publishing galaxy far, far away, the healthcare business publication that I worked for as a reporter required each news story to be read four times. Every story got four “reads,” as we used to say. At each step, the story got worse as the next read compounded errors introduced and questions raised by the previous read.
This month’s AI report includes news and updates from Imagene AI, XSOLIS, Gridspace, The Digital Medicine Society, Butterfly Network, Inc., Ada Health, and Blackrock Neurotech, Mayo Clinic Platform and VirtuSense.
By Robert L. Murry PhD MD FAAFP – Recently I had the distinct privilege of presenting to the ONC Health IT Advisory Committee at their meeting titled “Health Equity by Design.” The presentation highlighted five areas of focus for Health IT in reducing health disparities:
By William Hersh MD – One of the most enjoyable and impactful activities of my career has been the 10×10 course, which is an online introductory course in biomedical and health informatics that I teach in partnership with the American Medical Informatics Association.
Our monthly roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry. This month, HIMSS Cybersecurity Report, caregiver fatigue, the nursing workforce, millennials and insurance, and SaaS adoption.
By William Hersh MD – A three-year extension to the Practice Pathway of board certification eligibility for the clinical informatics subspecialty has been approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties for the American Board of Preventive Medicine.