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By combining in-home and virtual care, we can meet patients literally where they are. More importantly, we can improve outcomes, reduce costs and help patients get back to a normal life while giving therapists the flexibility and opportunity to provide more customized care for their patients.

The new DEA ruling is doing a disservice not only to people with OUD, but to the entire medical care system—exacerbating a condition that will most likely lead to death.

Image recognition ML models are being widely used in radiology with excellent results, sometimes catching things missed by even the most highly trained human eye. This doesn’t mean ML is ready to replace clinicians’ judgment or take their jobs, but results so far offer compelling evidence that ML may have value as a tool to augment their clinical judgment.

About 70% of hospital IT pilots fail or face major challenges, yet it's rare for hospitals to discuss these setbacks. At HIMSS23, two nursing informatics leaders argued that project failure is nothing to be ashamed of because it can teach hospitals valuable lessons about what they need for technology initiatives to thrive in the future.

Abdera Therapeutics emerged from stealth with technology that improves the way antibodies deliver radiopharmaceuticals for cancer. A lead program with preclinical proof-of-concept data in small cell lung cancer is on track to reach the clinic in 2024.

Over the past 2 years, concerted efforts have been undertaken by policymakers and FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence to mitigate risks and improve the transparency of the accelerated approval program. These actions are crucial to restoring public trust – trust that has suffered considerable erosion.

Integrating pharmacists into primary care teams could be a key way to address the primary care physician shortage, according to a new report. The pandemic made it clear that pharmacists are clinically trained and want to provide care beyond filling prescriptions, the report said.

Health technologies are often built based on the "reference man" and frequently don't take other demographics into account. It shouldn't be this way, experts argued on a panel Thursday at the HIMSS 2023 conference.

A cell phone is one of the best tools to have when caring for those experiencing homelessness, two experts said during a Tuesday panel at the HIMSS 2023 conference in Chicago.

Patients are struggling to find the right care, and that's because the healthcare system is fragmented, according to Andrea Walsh, president and CEO of HealthPartners, an integrated healthcare provider and insurance company. Walsh made these comments Wednesday at the HIMSS 2023 conference in Chicago.