The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms

There are artificial intelligence programs that can diagnose eye disease in diabetics and complications in stroke patients. SOME ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE breakthroughs happen in computer science labs or tense televised board games between a person and a machine. The latest advance in medical AI has less glamorous origins: the depths of US government bureaucracy. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…

AWS Voice-Enabled Transcription Tool to Address Clinician Burnout

Amazon Transcribe Medical can limit physician burnout and improve care with the automatic transcription service. December 02, 2019 – AWS has announced the deployment of Amazon Transcribe Medical, a speech recognition service that transcribes clinician and patient speech into text. The tool helps physicians document more efficiently, integrating medical transcriptions into EHRs or applications. The service also includes transcribing…

Federated learning allows hospitals to share data privately

Researchers have shown that federated learning is successful in the context of brain imaging, by being able to analyze magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of brain tumor patients and distinguish healthy brain tissue from cancerous regions. The approach can be used to create an Artificial Intelligence system that will help clinicians better identify and treat…

3 Strategies to Enhance EHR Usability Through EHR Optimization

Being able to adapt and optimize new EHR technology is crucial to the future of EHR usability. It is common to put an emphasis on the EHR vendor and implementation of new EHR technology. However, sustaining the technology and enhancing EHR usability comes down to EHR optimization. Better EHR usability leads to higher EHR adoption…

Blockchain – paradigm shift towards patient-centered healthcare

Blockchain is an emerging technology that originated with the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008 and has since steadily filtered into various markets. In an industry where gigantic masses of sensitive data is created, such technology has the potential to have enormous impact on the healthcare system. One of those systems utilized by A-MEDiCARE is blockchain…