Laura Dyrda

3 weeks ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Laura Dyrda

Hospitals across the U.S. are continuing their long recovery from the financial turbulence of the early 2020s, with April’s data from Kaufman Hall’s “National Hospital Flash Report” offering a mixed but cautiously optimistic outlook.

3 weeks ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Laura Dyrda

Artificial intelligence is a powerful technology changing many aspects of healthcare delivery. Some nurses fear the risk of relying too much on it; others see big potential for reducing administrative burden. Nurse leaders at the nation’s biggest health systems and smallest community hospitals alike are working with their teams to strategically incorporate AI into workflows where it can be beneficial and minimize risk to patient care.

3 weeks ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Laura Dyrda

California-based Stanford Health Care is piloting an internally developed, AI-backed software designed to revolutionize clinician interaction with the EHR. Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, chief data science officer at Stanford Health Care, is leading the development team for ChatEHR, which allows clinicians to ask questions, request summaries and pull specific information from a patient’s medical record. ChatEHR is built directly into Stanford’s EHR to maximize clinical workflow.

3 weeks ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Laura Dyrda

EHRs have dominated the attention of health system IT teams over the last two decades. CIOs and their teams of technical experts coordinated vast EHR roll-outs and then worked to optimize capabilities. They have spent countless hours trying to eliminate the administrative burden for clinicians while also combatting cyberattacks and network disruptions.

3 weeks ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Laura Dyrda

Nonprofit hospitals are seeing margins improve as patient demand for care soars, according to Kaufman Hall’s “National Hospital Flash Report” released June 5. Kaufman Hall, a Vizient company, analyzed data from 1,300 hospitals collected by Strata Decision Technology for its monthly report.