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In Saudi Arabia, machine learning model helps reduce outpatient no-shows

Healthcare It News

MNGHA comprises more than 30 hospitals, specialty hospitals and primary care centers across Saudi Arabia, with all facilities linked to a unified EHR system called BESTCare. "Advanced analytics, prediction and machine learning." That gives the "advantage of having a huge amount of data," Al Ghamdi explained.

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Leveraging the cloud and AI to transform the patient experience

Healthcare It News

Vendors of cloud technologies are aiming to tackle the issue of high call volumes while at the same time helping healthcare call centers reimagine the patient and employee experience. Frost & Sullivan recently surveyed 129 healthcare decision makers to discover how contact centers changed as a result of the pandemic.

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This FQHC slashed its patient no-show rate with AI in 3 months

Healthcare It News

That achievement is significant because annually, UHP experiences a high number of missed appointments and appointments for patients waiting are sometimes "booked out way too far." The organization needed to change things around to keep health centers open. While UHP scheduled 794,322 visits in 2022, only 57.6%

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Calendars don't lie: How health systems can improve provider and patient scheduling

Healthcare It News

A recent survey found 84% of provider organizations limit patients to only scheduling appointments through the front desk or call center. It can take weeks or months to bring schedulers up to speed on learning and applying the intricacies of a moderately sized medical group. It’s a massive disconnect – and opportunity.

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Eight Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Social Determinants of Health

Bill Of Health

HUD can amend 24 CFR §982.553 to narrow public housing exclusions linked to drug use to situations in which a person’s use of illegal drugs is causing observable harm to the premises or the community, and tighten key definitions to better guide local public housing agencies. Student at Temple University’s Department of Geography.

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Will NIH Learn from Myriad when Settling Its mRNA Inventorship Dispute with Moderna?

Bill Of Health

Failing to do so would be a missed opportunity for the public sector to have a say in the distribution and pricing of this critical medical technology. As I discuss in my recent book, The Genome Defense , an international race to isolate and sequence the BRCA genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer began in 1990.

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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey

Health Populi

Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S.