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By Noah Schwartz for Becker’s Hospital Review Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is using artificial intelligence to directly assist clinicians, such as a monitoring program that can predict deterioration risk, rather than just creating algorithms, the AMA reported Aug. 25. The alert system identifies high-risk patients using EHR and clinical data. The tool has prevented 500 deaths, according…

By Giles Bruce for Becker’s Hospital Review As healthcare data breaches continue to increase, cybersecurity company Drata analyzed HHS data to determine which states were affected the most in 2022. Here are the top 20 (by the number of people affected per 10,000 residents), according to the July 20 report: 1. Wisconsin: 743.2 2. West Virginia: 703.9 3. North…

By Mike Restuccia for Healthcare IT News In most industries, when one competing organization falters, it is often viewed positively by its competitors. For better or worse, this is generally not the case in the healthcare provider space. Each day we learn of hospitals across the country shutting their doors, which leaves those communities abandoned for…

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive The COVID-19 pandemic kickstarted a rapid increase in adoption of healthcare technology, reshaping the bedrock of American medical operations and delivery. But as 2022 drew to a close, several factors suggested that technology adoption was slowing down, including a cooled landscape for digital health funding and a drop in…