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| Association of Health Care Journalists | Innovations, Patient Care

UMass digital hub provides peek into future of remote patient management

When the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health in Worcester opened its digital hub last fall, it provided a glimpse of what the future of remote care management could look like.

When we think about a digital hub, it’s a setting that locates clinical caregivers and digital medicine capabilities to provide better care for patients, whether they’re in the inpatient setting, the ambulatory setting, or at home. We’ve been trying to use digital strategies to help drive some of the more important system-level strategies that we have.

Eric Alper | M.D., Chief Quality Officer and Chief Informatics Officer
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| Healthcare Dive | AI, Innovations

CHAI launches registry for health AI model cards

The goal of the registry is to make it easier for healthcare companies to evaluate and shop between validated AI tools, the standards consortium said.

The model cards play a crucial role in the AI governance process by consolidating information in an easily digestible format, facilitating product comparisons, and providing standardized data that meets the needs of various stakeholders, from radiologists to legal teams.

Elisabeth Garwood | Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer
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| HealthLeaders | AI, Innovations, Patient Care

UMass Memorial Health CEO Is Addressing 'Psychology of Change' with AI to Solve the Workforce Problem

Dr. Eric Dickson shares with HealthLeaders the importance of getting clinicians on board with AI for alleviating hospital capacity constraints.

If I could fix one thing right now today for our healthcare system, it would be getting patients out of the hospital that don't need to be there.

Dr. Eric Dickson, President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health
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| Becker's Hospital Review | Innovations, Patient Care

How UMass Memorial's digital hub is redefining patient care

UMass Memorial Health has launched a digital hub to centralize digital medicine capabilities and improve patient care across inpatient, outpatient, and home settings.

When we think about a digital hub, it's a setting that locates clinical caregivers and digital medicine capabilities to provide better care for patients, whether they're in the inpatient setting, the ambulatory setting, or at home

Eric Alper, MD, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer and Chief Clinical Informatics Officer
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| Worcester Business Journal | AI, In the Media, Innovations, Patient Care

Since becoming first in nation to implement new emergency room AI program, UMass Memorial has seen accuracy improve

As the use of artificial intelligence is becoming more prevalent in health care, UMass Memorial Medical Center’s emergency room in Worcester last year quietly became the first level-one trauma center in the United States to implement KATE AI.

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