Healthcare professionals are finding new ways to educate and train students and learners without a cadaver or live patient. The use of Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and even extended reality (XR) in medicine prepares nurses as well as physicians and surgeons for real-life practice and procedures.
Research firm Research and Markets projects that the AR and VR market...
When people think of a command center, NASA’s Mission Control may be the first example that comes to mind. Other agencies, from the local to federal level, also rely on mission-critical operations centers as a centralized location for real-time data and response coordination.
In the past half decade, command centers have been gaining ground as permanent fixtures in healthcare organizations...
Healthcare organizations are expected to enter strong financial headwinds in the first quarter of 2023, with high inflation, labor shortages and continuing sickness from COVID-19 and other viruses.
Hospitals continue to report negative operating margins for the end of the year. Some health systems are eyeing real estate changes to find cost savings or drive more value. Organizations can also...
Staff shortages in senior and post-acute care are getting worse. According to a recent survey from the American Health Care Association, nearly all nursing home providers are experiencing difficulty hiring staff, with 60 percent reporting that their workforce situation has worsened since January. The same percentage say they are limiting new patients due to the staff shortage.
“Many of the...
For years, the success of artificial intelligence in healthcare has been heavily debated. AI has been used successfully to gain insights into issues that impact the broader population, but its efficacy in helping to treat individual patients at the point of care has not been nearly as successful.
For the technology to reach its full potential in point-of-care settings, AI...
We want efficient, seamless healthcare with better experiences for patients and providers, but we want to focus just on services and not share data and build systems around the patient.
At a glance, an answer seems straightforward: Yes, a well-functioning health system requires patient-centered records, where data is shared both to optimize care and to learn for the future.
But...
It’s easy to focus on patient complaints in the healthcare setting. Injuries, worrisome labs and other symptoms are obvious red flags for patient health. But medical interventions like these influence patient outcomes only 20 percent of the time or less. Social determinants of health affect the remaining 80 percent.
When we talk about SDOH, we mean social factors such as...
Innovations in eye care have the potential to improve patient outcomes and deliver new treatment options.
Artificial intelligence applications in ophthalmology are gaining traction as AI algorithms help physicians predict risk for a wide range of ophthalmic conditions such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
AI systems can analyze and interpret complex eye scans and help detect, monitor and...
Supply chain attacks on vendors and third-party suppliers have far-reaching ramifications on healthcare organizations. Malicious actors can insert malware into a vendor’s code (or software updates), and when a client downloads the software, the attacker gains access to an organization’s networked systems.
However, there is another version of supply chain risk that results from an interconnected digital world that needs...
