In this AMA podcast, Veena Jones, MD, CMIO at Sutter Health, talks about how the California-based health system is turning clinical notes from the care team into patient-friendly summaries using AI.
According to a new report released by Verkada in collaboration with The Harris Poll, nearly 40% of healthcare workers have considered quitting due to safety concerns and workplace violence. Forty-five percent of them said they're likely to exit the field within the next 12 months.
Physician groups are disproportionately filing lawsuits against people who live in St. Louis ZIP codes with high percentages of poor people and Black residents, according to recently published research in JAMA Network Open. The research found two physician groups – WashU Medicine Physicians and SLUCare Physicians – brought close to 1,000 lawsuits seeking to collect medical debt from patients between January 2020 and May 2023.
Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even in people who didn't get sick from COVID, a new study suggests. Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that during the pandemic years of 2021 and 2022, people's brains showed signs of aging, including shrinkage, according to the report published in Nature Communications. People who got infected with the virus also showed deficits in certain cognitive abilities, such as processing speed and mental flexibility.
Members of a congressional oversight committee said Tuesday that they fear public trust in organ donation has been fractured after a federal report found that an organ procurement organization ignored signs of life in patients when authorizing attempted organ removals. The hearing followed a federal investigation by HRSA that found that a group responsible for overseeing the removal of organs from deceased patients and getting them to patients in need exhibited 'concerning patterns of risk to neurologically injured patients.'