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AI can unlock supply to meet demand, says Johns Hopkins physician IT leader

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"How do we care for more patients with the same clinical workforce we have today? How do we meaningfully increase productivity? "How do we inject really meaningful intelligence into what comes first and what comes next for patients in their journey? " he continued.

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Generative AI to bring 'transformative change,' says Froedtert/Inception Health CTO

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In this – part one of our two-part interview with the innovator – we talk about generative AI in healthcare and how hospital chief information officers and other health IT leaders should be preparing for a fast-evolving future for the technology. What role do you think generative AI should play in healthcare today?

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Mass General Brigham CMIO on AI: 'exciting, but a little anxiety-provoking'

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To read the first feature, on Dr. John Halamka at the Mayo Clinic, click here. To read the second interview, with Dr. Aalpen Patel at Geisinger, click here. To read the third, with Helen Waters of Meditech, click here. And to read the fourth, with Sumit Rana of Epic, click here. Dr. Rebecca G.

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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

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"It significantly eases the way of our patients by extending our clinical team directly into homes, enhancing the quality of care we provide to patients with chronic conditions while streamlining the patient experience," she continued. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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At Baptist Health, patient engagement shown to be equivalent to adding a BP med

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"We were looking at an alternative method to improving our patient’s lives that was scalable," Oliver explained. "The vast majority of people with high blood pressure have no symptoms even when blood pressure readings are dangerously high. "The No. "High blood pressure is sneaky," Oliver said.

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With Epic-linked RPM, Lee Health is sending fewer people to hospitals and ERs

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Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. "What we learned is that we needed data," he continued. There is only so much one can solve via a video interaction. THE PROBLEM.

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Parkview Health brings diabetic retinopathy tests closer to the patients

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MEETING THE CHALLENGE "We used our existing coworkers, who are trained and certified to perform the exam," Shirar noted. Our teams align the individual's head in the camera, take two images of each eye (without dilation), and 40 seconds later we have a diagnostic result.