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Access to the Care and Health Information Exchange Delivers Benefits for Care Homes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

One of England's best-known shared care records is helping to join-up health and care services by rolling-out access to care homes with the support of its technology provider, Orion Health.

The Care and Health Information Exchange, which operates across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, has been able to offer secure access to care homes after Orion Health incorporated the kind of multi-factor authentication that is increasingly common in banking and commercial services.

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Improving Hospital Stays and Outcomes for Older Patients with Dementia through AI

By using artificial intelligence (AI), Houston Methodist researchers are able to predict hospitalization outcomes of geriatric patients with dementia on the first or second day of hospital admission. This early assessment of outcomes means more timely interventions, better care coordination, more judicious resource allocation, focused care management and timely treatment for these more vulnerable, high-risk patients.

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Machine Learning Creates Opportunity for New Personalized Therapies

Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a computational platform that can predict new and specific metabolic targets in ovarian cancer, suggesting opportunities to develop personalized therapies for patients that are informed by the genetic makeup of their tumors. The study appeared in Nature Metabolism.

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For Start-ups, MEDICA is the Gateway to the World - Programme Highlights: Two Competitions Boast an Exciting Finale

14 - 17 November 2022, Düsseldorf, Germany.
As one of the world's leading medical trade fairs, MEDICA in Düsseldorf presents innovations every year for the entire healthcare workflow, for clinical and outpatients. Among the over 4,200 companies at MEDICA 2022 there will again be several hundred start-ups.

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Public Support Needed to Tackle Racial and other Biases in AI for Healthcare

Members of the public are being asked to help remove biases based on race and other disadvantaged groups in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for healthcare.

Health researchers are calling for support to address how ‘minoritised’ groups, who are actively disadvantaged by social constructs, would not see future benefits from the use of AI in healthcare.

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X-on Launches Phonebar to Bring Telecoms to the Desktop

Cloud telephony provider X-on has launched Phonebar; an app to consolidate telecoms and patient communications onto the GP desktop.

The company is already offering Phonebar to practices that use the EMIS record system and will soon offer it to SystmOne and Vision customers.

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South Tees Reachese-Prescribing Milestone in EPR Journey, with Alcidion and Better Meds

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has taken the next step in its modern, modular electronic patient record (EPR) programme with Alcidion, having gone live with electronic prescribing and medication administration (ePMA) system Better Meds.

The trusthas deployed Better Meds to inpatient and outpatient areas, where it is already removing paper forms and manual processes, as well as helping busy healthcare professionals to make safe prescribing decisions.

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Orion Health Celebrates Landmark First of Achieving Conformance Against PRSB Core Information Standard for Shared Care Records

Orion Health has been awarded the Professional Record Standards Body Quality Mark for conformance with the Core Information Standard - the first supplier to achieve this watershed on the journey to interoperable shared care records.

This achievement proves that information in people’s health and care records can be shared wherever and whenever it is needed for care.

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VR Reduced Need for Sedation During Hand Surgery

With conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome and osteoarthritis on the rise, U.S. hand surgeons perform more than half a million procedures each year. Patients undergoing hand surgery commonly receive a regional anesthetic to block pain prior to the procedure, plus monitored anesthesia care (MAC) during the operation.

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Users Trust AI as Much as Humans for Flagging Problematic Content

Social media users may trust artificial intelligence (AI) as much as human editors to flag hate speech and harmful content, according to researchers at Penn State.

The researchers said that when users think about positive attributes of machines, like their accuracy and objectivity, they show more faith in AI.

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