By BBC A hospice is using virtual reality (VR) to help patients relax and transport them away from their beds. St Giles Hospice, which has bases in Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield, said the headsets allowed patients “to escape the realities…
By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News St. Luke’s University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM…
By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic’s EHR training program increased user confidence and proficiency in the EHR, according to a July 7 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The program, dubbed…
By Giles Bruce for Becker’s Hospital Review Radiologists working in tandem with artificial intelligence more accurately detect breast cancer than either of them analyzing the images alone, a July study in The Lancet Digital Health found. The study used a dataset of 1.2 million…
By Giles Bruce for Becker’s Hospital Review IT staffing remains a major challenge for hospital systems, as they compete with tech companies for skilled employees in the midst of a tight labor market, several CIOs told Becker’s. Workforce was identified as…
By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review A New Mexico county for the third consecutive year took the top spot in U.S. News & World Report and CVS Health’s 2022 “Healthiest Communities Rankings.” This marks the fifth annual edition of the rankings.…
By Patsy Newitt for Becker’s Hospital Review Plastic surgery is the specialty with the most physicians most likely to report net worth exceeding $5 million, according to Medscape’s “Physician Wealth & Debt Report 2021.” The report, released June 10, includes responses from…
By Susan Morse for Becker’s Hospital Review Hospitals will experience a slowing of inpatient admissions but an increase in the length of adult inpatient stays, the latter being fueled in part by long COVID-19 and a rise in chronic conditions,…
By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations globally increased by 94 percent year over year, according to a 2022 report from cybersecurity firm Sophos. The report surveyed 5,600 IT professionals and included interviews with 381 healthcare IT…
From For the Record The American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced an editorial update to CPT, the nation’s leading medical terminology code set for describing health care procedures and services, that includes new product and administration codes assigned to the Moderna…
