MetroHealth to Test Conversational AI With Cancer Patients
MetroHealth, the Cleveland-based academic medical center, has partnered with Dallas-based Pieces Technologies Inc. to study a conversational artificial intelligence agent designed to allow cancer patients to ask questions in real time about any aspect of their attention, while obtaining information about the social determinants of health. (SDOH). Under a $2
Merchants of Death – Healthcare Economist
That’s the clever title of recient American Economic Review post by Cyrus Aghamolla, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Xuelin Li, Richard T. Thakor. The summary is below. This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. We use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to
Cleveland Clinic, Amazon One Medical Collaborating in N.E. Ohio
Cleveland Clinic and Amazon One Medical are collaborating to provide primary and specialty care in Northeast Ohio. Amazon One Medical, a hybrid virtual and in-person primary care organization, said it will open its first primary care office in affiliation with Cleveland Clinic next year, offering same-day and next-day appointment availability,
MetroHealth Integrates Virtual Behavioral Health With Primary Care
MetroHealth, the public safety-net hospital system in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, is partnering with a virtual health company called Ovatient to integrate virtual behavioral health services into primary care. MetroHealth has five hospitals, four emergency departments and more than 20 health centers. Ovatient was formed through a partnership between MetroHealth and
Best practices for conducting a scoping review – Healthcare Economist
Scoping reviews are a type of knowledge synthesis, following a systematic approach to mapping the evidence on a topic and identifying key concepts, theories, sources, and knowledge gaps. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (IACHR) defines a scope review as: ‘exploratory projects that systematically map
Providence Forms Joint Venture With Compassus for Home Care
Providence Health System is forming a joint venture with home care provider Compassus for home care, palliative care, community-based palliative care and private care services. Under the agreement, Tennessee-based Compassus will assume management of operations for Providence’s 24 home care centers in Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington, and 17 hospice
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for evaluating treatment effectiveness, but real-world effectiveness may vary. One reason for this is that clinical trials often have stricter inclusion criteria than the population treated. Policymakers, payers, and clinicians may wonder how well results translate from the smaller clinical trial population to
HCA Co-Developing Multi-Specialty, EHR-Agnostic Ambient AI Platform
HCA Healthcare Inc., one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers with 188 hospitals and approximately 2,400 outpatient care sites, is making an effort to integrate AI into healthcare and transform the way healthcare is performed and Document patient visits throughout the HCA Healthcare network. HCA is working with vendor Commure
EHR Association celebrates 20 Years of groundbreaking collaborations and milestones
Twenty years ago this month, 21 of the industry’s leading EHR vendors came together to form what was then called HIMSS EHR Vendor Association to accelerate widespread EHR adoption. It was based on a bold premise: competitors worked collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality of EHR
Network Created to Promote Healthier Pregnancies in Michigan
A collaboration led by Wayne State University’s Office of Women’s Health is launching SOS Motherhood, a statewide network seeking to end preventable causes of death in mothers and children in Michigan. The state of Michigan has allocated $11 million to fund the statewide network established to address some alarming statistics,
Stakeholders Describe Progress With 360X Referral Management
Eliminating paper, faxes and phone calls from the referral process has proven to be a difficult interoperability challenge, but health IT experts continue to work on it. Providers and developers recently announced that they have successfully implemented the 360X closed-loop referral management tool integrated into their Epic and Netsmart EHRs.
Helping Health Plans Improve Analytics Approach to Whole-Person Care
Siftwell Analytics is a prescriptive analytics company that provides health-related social needs data analytics to health plans. Trey Sutten, co-founder and CEO, recently spoke with Healthcare innovation about trends in this space and some of the ways health plans are using this data to improve patient outcomes. Sutten has served
