Crafting strategic and beneficial partnerships with big technology companies has been an important aspect of the CIO's role for the past several years, and the pandemic emphasized the need to sharpen those relationships going forward.
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George Washington University Hospital is expanding a virtual reality project to create 27 different interactive models that present a 360-degree view of COVID-19 patients' lungs, according to local ABC affiliate WJLA.
Technology and digital transformation will continue to play a vital role in health systems' recovery and transition toward the next normal after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System launched a pilot of 10 digital health screening kiosks, which can capture and monitor vital signs without touching the individual, according to a July 20 Detroit Free Press report.
Hospitals nationwide have been utilizing predictive analytics tools to project the location and severity of future COVID-19 outbreaks.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped hospitals and health systems from developing interesting partnerships with tech companies and other organizations to deliver better care.
Here are four recent studies in which artificial intelligence was proven to detect a health condition or make a diagnosis with greater speed or accuracy than a human expert.
Earlier this year, Michael Hogarth, MD, clinical research information officer at UC San Diego Health, sat in on a presentation about how radiologists could use machine learning decision support to identify pneumonia in X-rays images; the presenter ended his session…
Bioengineers at Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up with clinicians at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital to design N95 masks that can be sterilized for reuse.
Cleveland Clinic Florida on July 8 opened the St. Lucie-based Florida Research and Innovation Center, established to facilitate translational research on immuno-oncology and infectious diseases.