An AI-enhanced system enables doctors to spend less time searching for clinical information and more time treating patients. Electronic health records have been widely adopted with the hope they would save time and improve the quality of patient care. But due to fragmented interfaces and tedious data entry procedures, physicians often spend more time navigating...
JULY 20TH, 2020 MEDGADGET EDITORSCARDIOLOGY, CRITICAL CARE, EMERGENCY MEDICINE, GERIATRICS, INFORMATICS, MEDICINE, PEDIATRICS, PUBLIC HEALTH, SURGERY, TELEMEDICINE Vitls Inc., a company out of Houston, Texas, won FDA clearance for its Vitls Platform, a combination of a vitals monitoring patch, cloud storage, and an app that lets clinicians monitor multiple patients wearing such a patch at...
Patients with frailty, older age and urinary tract infections (UTIs) are at greatest risk of developing sepsis following infection consultations in primary care, research has found. A research study published today in PLOS Medicine by researchers from King’s College London, with funding from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), aimed to estimate the probability of...
Primary care physicians spend more than one-half of their workday interacting with the electronic health record during and after clinic hours. Based on data from EHR event logs (an automated tracking feature) and confirmed by direct observation data, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the American Medical Association found that physicians spent 355 minutes...
