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Advancing empathy in AI: Vanderbilt tackles chatbot safety for mental health
A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is setting out on a two-year project that aims to make AI chatbots more effective — and more empathetic — when part of behavioral health care treatment.
Intermountain Healthcare Embraces Transformation
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare continues to transform itself to best adapt to the demands of the changing health care environment. As part of the current transformation, the health system has organized its leadership to optimize the interdependencies of safety, quality, patient experience and workforce engagement. Under this construct, the system streamlines decision making, minimizes waste and redundancy, and positions the organization to deliver exceptional patient-centered care.
Bartlett Regional Hospital Connecting Patients to Community Support Agencies
In 2018, collaborating with community partners to better serve its patients in the greater Juneau, Alaska region, Bartlett Regional Hospital implemented an emergency department information exchange system that made possible real-time information sharing that is imperative for coordinated care efforts.
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The life-saving heart surgery few can perform: Meet the Temple surgeon leading the way
A complicated, rare and difficult-to-perform heart surgery first pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.
Rural hospital’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare program closes care gaps
Monadnock Community Hospital’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) program is closing care gaps in the rural community of Peterborough, N.H., and the eastern Monadnock region.
Two Washington state hospitals tag-team trauma care
St. Joseph Medical Center and MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital are now rotating trauma care every other day through the Tacoma Trauma Trust, a non-profit 501(c)3 joint level II trauma program.
Role of Hospitals: Ochsner Medical Center
Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans is using predictive analytics to improve patient safety, care delivery and health outcomes. For example, the health system applies machine learning to reduce health care-acquired Clostridioides difficile infections.
New labor and delivery rooms give new parents more options
When parents-to-be opt to deliver their baby at a birthing center, it’s often because they want more freedom to choose their birth experience — such as pain management options, comfort techniques, assisted deliveries or just a more homelike setting.
Could telehealth be the solution for the nursing shortage in hospitals? Jefferson Health thinks so
Abington Hospital, a member of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, has piloted a program that pairs bedside nurses with a “virtual nurse” who assists with routine administrative tasks, including discharge and answering patients’ questions.