Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center has instituted a robot dietitian that roams the hospital to provide nutrition counseling to patients, The Times and Democrat reported Jan. 2.
The annual number of healthcare ransomware attacks more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, threatening patient safety and outcomes, a Dec. 29 study in JAMA Health Forum found.
The CDC is calling for vendors to provide white papers on utilizing EHR data to determine the effectiveness of vaccines against respiratory diseases, like COVID-19, Govexec reported Jan. 3.
Laura Groschen, the former business unit CIO of Medtronic, has joined Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare Co., a behavioral health system, as its CIO.
Microsoft is partnering with Apollo Hospitals, a Chennai-based Indian hospital chain, to train its artificial-intelligence-powered cardiac prognosis model on a dataset of South Asian patients, Analytics India Magazine reported Jan. 3.