The following is a guest article by Raj Tumuluri, Founder and CEO at Openstream.ai As healthcare providers, you are acutely aware of the staggering mental health challenges facing our societies today. Depression, anxiety, PTSD, and suicidal ideation have reached pandemic levels, exacerbated by the relentless pace of modern life. From the general population to students […]
The U.S. is considered one of the most dangerous high-income countries in the world in which to give birth. Meanwhile, there’s a shortage of OB-GYNs, leaving more than 2.2 million women of childbearing age living in so-called maternity care deserts with limited obstetric care. THE PROBLEM The “fourth trimester,” or postpartum time-period, is often a […]
The stress and strain healthcare professionals are under, even pre-dating the pandemic, is well understood. Pressures of waiting lists, recruitment and retention difficulties and budget constraints all contribute to the stresses and strains. An equally significant root cause is the time clinicians spend on paperwork and administration. The documentation burden Over the last decade or […]
Chatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined replies that followed a simple logic structure. But customers can have complex problems, and no tree-diagram of possible replies can have enough branches to account for all the edge cases that arise. Thankfully, the advent of large language models has […]
At the University of California Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, faculty members are developing ways for artificial intelligence to help deliver better patient care and improved outcomes. Amir Rhamani is a professor at the nursing school – and also a computer science professor at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer […]
In a recent review published in npj Digital Medicine, researchers examined the current state of research into fully automated conversational agents (CAs)-mediated interventions for the emotional component of mental health among young individuals. Study: Use of automated conversational agents in improving young population mental health: a scoping review. Image Credit: SewCreamStudio/Shutterstock.com Background Mental health issues are a […]
Imagine this: a novel virus is rapidly breaking out nationwide, resulting in an epidemic. The government introduces vaccination mandates and a choice of different vaccines is available. But not everyone is getting the same vaccine. When you sign up for vaccination, you are sent a vial with instructions to send a sample of your saliva […]
Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced Friday that its Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot automates clinical documentation during patient appointments in Meditech Expanse electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS As a partner and a member of the Meditech Alliance Program, Nuance already supports the Expanse EHR with workflow assistance and documentation to help alleviate clinician burnout […]
Good morning, and happy Monday! Washington’s cherry blossoms hit their second-earliest peak bloom in more than a century of records yesterday – we hope you were able to beat the crowds to sneak a peak. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. Today’s edition: President Biden is slated to sign an executive order that would expand […]