Category: Health IT

How Mayo Clinic will use generative AI to search through EHRs

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using Google Cloud’s generative artificial intelligence application that uses an AI-based chatbot to receive questions, pull information from internal web pages and documents and summarize information from EHRs to …

Employee-sponsored telehealth 23% cheaper than in-person care, Penn study says

A 24/7 telehealth program established by Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine for its employees was 23 percent less expensive than providing in-person visits for the same conditions.

What Does a Chatbot Know About Eating Disorders? Users of a Help Line Are About to Find Out

The National Eating Disorders Association’s help line has seen demand climb to unsustainable levels since the beginning of the covid pandemic, with more people reporting severe mental health problems, the nonprofit says. But staffers worry this chatbot may make things worse.

OSU Wexner Medical Center to offer 'smart drug' clinical trial through telehealth

Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center plans to offer a pancreatic cancer clinical trial to patients across the country via telehealth, WCMH reported June 9.

AI-driven solutions for burnout, patient empathy, and worker shortage

A recent Medpage Today article reviews a research article published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Nidhi Subbaraman, in a topic-related Wall Street Journal article, also reviews this JAMA article and several pilot AI doctor response programs currently unde…

4 hospitals, health systems installing new EHRs

Here are four health systems that have implemented or announced plans to implement new EHR systems since May. 17. 

Nebraska hospital extends EHR partnership

Columbus (Neb.) Community Hospital is expanding its partnership with digital health company Altera Digital Health to use the Paragon EHR for seven more years.

U of Iowa adds new biometric authentication tools to Epic

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Hospitals is adding Bio-key’s PortalGuard to its Epic EHR as the health system migrates from Epic Hyperspace to the Epic Hyperdrive user interface.

Washington VA hospital won't cut staff due to budget deficit caused by Cerner EHR

Spokane, Wash.-based Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center’s regional director said the hospital won’t cut staff due to its projected $35 million budget deficit in which its troubled Cerner EHR system plays a large role, The Spokesman-Review reported June …

Where Epic, Oracle Cerner, Meditech rank outside the US

While Epic continues to dominate the EHR vendor market in the United States, it ranks tenth outside the U.S., trailing its closest American competitor, Oracle Cerner, a June 8 KLAS Research report found.