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Healthcare Workforce – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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For example, AI-powered speech recognition helps dentists and hygienists seamlessly capture notes during a patient visit without stopping and physically entering information. According to a recent McKinsey study, 45% of inpatient nurses (who make up about nearly half of the 4.2 million nurses in the U.S.)

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

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All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

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For acute care in particular, the patient’s full care team – which includes various specialists, nurses, EMS, and others – must have access to the platform from anywhere at any time, including via mobile devices, to collaborate and communicate faster throughout the entire patient journey, not just at one specific point of care.

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Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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There is an understanding that human-to-human connections in behavioral health are necessary–especially when the potential for self-harm is involved. However, we must weigh the benefits of human rapport against the shrinking healthcare dollar as we consider the potentially positive impacts of AI. Enter academia.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage. We expect to see more smart technology and automation in healthcare (i.e.