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Color Health uses OpenAI to develop cancer screening copilot for doctors

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Color Health, a genetic testing company, is using OpenAI's newest, less expensive, large language model to equip doctors with pretreatment workup expertise that could speed up prior authorization requests for cancer screening diagnostics and get patients into treatment faster.

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

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In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. Challenges for healthcare professionals along the patient pathway. Roles in healthcare are changing.

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Putting patients at the heart of digital healthcare

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Crowded waiting rooms, stressed medical staff, and time pressure during diagnostic examinations—these are familiar challenges faced by many healthcare facilities and they require urgent attention. “My personal health history has shown me how valuable it is to be able to talk with my trusted doctor in a secure digital setting.

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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

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Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals. This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data.

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Are we taking patient privacy as seriously as we ought to be?

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BOSTON – Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, kicked off the 2022 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday, with a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion on patient privacy in an era of widespread data sharing. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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EMR implementation as a 'science'

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Sharing initial findings from their latest region-wide survey on healthcare providers' experiences in using EMR systems, HIMSS's APAC managing editor Thiru Gunasegaran, who also served as panel moderator, noted that clinicians spend between five and six hours on average on the EMR system. "Complex cases require more time."

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IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022

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health system stretched thin by wave after wave of COVID-19 variants, that hope may be hard to come by. The healthcare workforce is depleted, exhausted and demoralized. Data is everywhere, but not always available or decipherable to help manage myriad challenges. The beginning of a new year is usually a time for optimism.

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