Tag: Clinical decision support

July 18, 2019

The Parkinson’s Foundation will launch a nationwide program offering free genetic testing for the disease and counseling to help patients understand their results. Test results from the program, called PD GENEration, will be used in research to aid in developing […]

April 24, 2019

An alert and “hard stop” programmed into an electronic health records system at an academic medical center resulted in a significant reduction in inappropriate gastrointestinal panel testing and cost savings. Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center hard-wired criteria […]

April 15, 2019

Faculty members of Partners HealthCare have ranked artificial intelligence-enabled technologies that will have the greatest impact on medicine in the next 12 months. The Boston-based health system announced the 2019 “Disruptive Dozen” AI technologies last week during a panel session […]

November 28, 2018

Drexel University researchers have developed an analytical model for detecting early warning signs of sepsis that can predict those patients at the greatest risk of dying from the life-threatening condition. Leveraging EHR data from more than 210,000 hospital visits between […]

July 10, 2018

University of Minnesota researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm using electronic health record data to improve care delivery for seriously ill patients by accurately predicting the risk of 1-year mortality. The random forest (RF) model, which estimates the risk […]

June 21, 2018

A reduction in federal funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which is charged with improving the safety and quality of the nation’s healthcare system, has resulted in defunding of the National Guideline Clearinghouse, a public database of […]

May 31, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday launched a challenge to industry to develop medical devices, including digital health technologies and diagnostic tests, in an effort to combat the nationwide opioid epidemic by targeting the problems of pain, addiction, and […]

March 19, 2018

A prediction model leveraging electronic health record data could be used to help providers identify hospitalized patients who are at highest risk of progressing to chronic opioid use after they’re discharged from the hospital. Researchers at the University of Colorado […]

March 16, 2018

A new electronic health record data mining technique developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found that undiagnosed genetic diseases may be more prevalent in the general population than previously assumed. Researchers mapped the clinical features of more […]

March 15, 2018

Researchers at Emory and Northwestern universities have developed artificial intelligence software that can predict the survival of patients diagnosed with glioma, a deadly form of brain tumor, by analyzing digital images of tissue biopsies. Being able to predict the course […]

March 12, 2018

Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic are developing a computerized tissue imaging capability that uses predictive analytics to potentially help identify which lung cancer patients are likely to experience an earlier recurrence of the disease. The National Cancer […]

February 21, 2018

As the Senate Finance Committee examines new policies to improve access to care and the quality of treatment by addressing root causes that lead to substance abuse, healthcare chief information officers are giving committee leaders Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron […]

January 23, 2018

While the problem of diagnostic errors is widespread in medicine, with an estimated 12 million Americans affected annually, a new approach to quantifying and monitoring these errors has the potential to prevent serious patient injuries, including disability or death. “The […]

January 19, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a clinical monitoring platform that alerts hospital staff in near real time of a patient’s deteriorating condition using a predictive algorithm. The WAVE Clinical Platform from Excel Medical acts as an early warning […]

December 19, 2017

Intermountain Healthcare has developed a clinical decision support app that tracks heart failure patients and alerts providers when their conditions have changed and require advanced disease therapies. The CDS app monitors HF patients through echocardiogram results and other health data […]

September 11, 2017

Ninety-nine percent of hospitals across the country now use electronic health record systems (EHRs), compared to about 31 percent in 2003. Computerized prescriber-order-entry (CPOE) systems with clinical decision support are used by 96 percent of hospitals, according to the ASHP […]

July 7, 2017

Eyeing the transition to value-based payment models, a midwestern health system reengineered its approach to data collection and analytics to provide clinicians with more actionable information. Executives at Sanford Health, headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, refer to this revamped […]

June 22, 2017

Many primary care doctors are shifting toward evidence-based practice, but they may have trouble finding the evidence they need to guide clinical decisions, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Georgia analyzed 721 topics from online references for […]

May 16, 2017

Sending laboratory results to emergency room physicians’ smartphones as soon as they are available can significantly hasten discharge decisions for chest pain patients. That’s the conclusion of a randomized controlled trial that assessed the effect of using push alerts to […]

April 11, 2017

Proponents of technology and data analytics are quick to point out the potential cost-savings of a tech-based approach to patient care. But a few hospitals are backing up those claims with real quantitative data. A third-party evaluation of 10 hospital […]