Monday, September 16, 2024
New York’s Mount Sinai Health System has announced a new research collaboration with IBM Research, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, and Deliberate AI, using AI and behavioural data to predict outcomes such as treatment discontinuation, hospitalisations, and ED visits for young people seeking mental health evaluation and treatment. The […]
Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, Canada, has gone live with a new Meditech Expanse electronic health record, taking to YouTube to share details of the transformation, roll-out, and impact. Fraser Health Authority, the British Columbian health authority incorporating Royal Columbian, said that the new EHR “allows health care staff […]
Three hospitals in Estonia – Tartu University Hospital, North Estonia Medical Center and Ida-Viru Central Hospital – have announced a new pilot which will see the introduction of digital mental health screenings and assessments for patients. The pilot is hoped to help “standardise and expedite care for individuals with mental […]
Jordan-based Presight, combining big data, analytics and AI to create positive impacts across sectors and industries, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Jordan’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, with focus to “set the pace of digital transformation in the country’s healthcare sector”. Through the contract, Presight will […]
The Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has highlighted the importance of data collaboration and “learning together” through the ICUdata project, taking the lead on organising the delivery of data across healthcare organisations utilising the HiX EPR. Noting the difficulties for clinicians in handling the amount of data generated thanks […]
Unity Health Toronto is preparing to launch its new Epic EPR, due to go live in November 2024, following “an extensive procurement process” involving more than 500 staff, clinicians, patients and stakeholders from across the organisation. Implementing a new EPR formed part of Unity Health’s strategic plan for 2019 – […]
In the USA, national non-profit organisations OCHIN and OSIS recently announced that they would enter a formal partnership with the aim of helping to address challenges facing the healthcare delivery system, aligning their capabilities to better support sustainability and accelerate innovation. OCHIN describes itself as a “leader in equitable health […]
Lagos Ministry of Health has shared insight into Lagos SHIP (State Health Information Platform) following recent signing agreements around its launch. Lagos SHIP is described as a “digital healthcare platform designed to boost healthcare services” through the leveraging of Interswitch’s technology infrastructure, creating a “comprehensive” health information system capable of […]
Accenture has announced the acquisition of German healthcare management consultancy consus.health, with the aim of building capabilities around digital transformation and managed services and enhancing consus.health’s reach across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Consus.health provides services including medical strategy, patient management, infrastructure management and construction management services, and has a “strong […]
We recently caught up with Itransition, a global software engineering company based in Decatur, Georgia, to learn more about some recent projects and initiatives around the use of digital in healthcare. We were joined by representatives of Itransition including Andrey Korzun, head of Healthcare Centre of Excellence; Anastasiya Korzun, healthcare solution […]
