July 2022

St. Luke’s University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care

By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News St. Luke’s University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM The organization was looking for a way not only to expand network coverage but also…

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Mayo Clinic’s EHR training increased clinicians’ EHR proficiency

By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic’s EHR training program increased user confidence and proficiency in the EHR, according to a July 7 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The program, dubbed reBoot Camp, was offered from April 2018 through June 2020. The program was designed to…

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AI, radiologists working together more accurately detect breast cancer: Study

By Giles Bruce for Becker’s Hospital Review Radiologists working in tandem with artificial intelligence more accurately detect breast cancer than either of them analyzing the images alone, a July study in The Lancet Digital Health found. The study used a dataset of 1.2 million mammograms taken between 2007 and 2020 and was led by researchers from Vara, a German…

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No. 1 challenge for CIOs: Tight tech labor market forces ‘a salary reckoning’

By Giles Bruce for Becker’s Hospital Review IT staffing remains a major challenge for hospital systems, as they compete with tech companies for skilled employees in the midst of a tight labor market, several CIOs told Becker’s. Workforce was identified as the No. 1 health IT issue, according to a recent poll of hospital tech executives by Becker’s. Ed Kopetsky,…

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