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STAT+: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries. ‘It’s a bit chaotic’

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As an intern at Duke University Medical Center in the ’90s, he’d sometimes be tasked with poring through a patient’s medical history to uncover the cause of their latest hospitalization. Back then, the stacks of paper records could tower 18 inches tall.

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STAT+: Truveta enlists health systems, drugmakers to launch ambitious new genomic database

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The genetic data, cross-referenced with the patients’ de-identified medical records, will be available for purchase for researchers and life sciences companies. Pharmaceutical company Regeneron has invested $119.5

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Opinion: Charging patients to message their doctors mostly benefits major hospital systems

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Some hospital systems have started charging patients for digital messages to their doctors via the electronic medical record, either a flat rate (like a copay) or on sliding scale depending on the time or complexity of the physician’s response. Thinking about messaging your physician about a weird rash?

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STAT+: Why U.S. health care cybersecurity laws are better at protecting a corpse’s privacy than patients’ lives

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Two days into a cyberattack on his hospital system, Nate Couture reached the end of his cyber incident plan. ’” But it would be 24 more days from where the plan ended until the Vermont health system was able to bring its electronic medical record system back online.

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The hospital pharmacy landscape in 2024

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Tiene Bauters, PharmD PhD, Pharmacy Department , Ghent University Hospital in Belgium, offers her take on what’s hot on the horizon for hospital pharmacy in 2024. These will undoubtedly present great opportunities for hospital pharmacists and their teams.

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Hospital pharmacist-led re-evaluation of medication errors: a pilot study

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Karl-Johan Lindner and Marie Halvarsson, from the pharmacy at Västerås Hospital in Sweden, describe a new approach to improve the categorisation of medication errors that uses the skills of hospital pharmacists to reclassify reported incidents based on a given medication process. One million injections or infusions and 1.7

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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

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health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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