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Hospital Campus In Marlborough Gets $125K To Support ER Expansion
How Safety Net Hospitals Can Scale AI
UMass Memorial Health Moves Longtime Primary Care Practice to Shrewsbury
Using AI to support nurses managing ED triage
There's going to be more and more pressure on emergency rooms moving forward, especially as other aspects of our healthcare systems are failing. So, throughput and accuracy are going to be very important through our emergency rooms. And a tool like this will be very beneficial.
Ken Shanahan | MSN, RN, senior director of emergency medicine and behavioral health at UMass Memorial Medical Center
Inside Hospitals' Digital Command Centers
We're collaborating more effectively by being in the same space, and that's allowing us to reduce some of the silos.
Eric Alper, MD | Vice President, Chief Quality and Chief Clinical Informatics Officer
Vicarious Surgical Partners with UMass Memorial to Advance Robotic Surgery
Vicarious Surgical Inc. has entered a formal agreement with UMass Memorial Medical Center to promote the use and adoption of its robotic surgery system. The collaboration will involve efforts to enhance surgical workflows through improved perioperative procedures, surgeon training, and system...
UMass expands AI tool to emergency departments systemwide
UMass Memorial Health has expanded an artificial intelligence–powered clinical decision tool to emergency departments across its network, aiming to support frontline nurses with early sepsis detection and improved patient triage.
Vicarious Surgical Announces New Collaboration with UMass Memorial Medical Center
Vicarious Surgical Inc (NYSE: RBOT, RBOT WS), a next-generation robotics technology company seeking to improve lives by transforming robotic surgery, today announced that it has signed an agreement with UMass Memorial Medical Center intended to support adoption and utilization of its robotic system...
Facing ED headwinds, UMass Memorial found relief in triage overhaul
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health has expanded the use of Mednition’s KATE AI triage support tool to five additional emergency departments after seeing early success at its flagship hospital.
52 hospitals and health systems with great innovation programs | 2024
Becker’s is delighted to recognize 52 hospitals and health systems with great innovation programs. These hospitals and health systems utilize progressive, visionary innovation programs to revolutionize their care provision. Innovation programs often incorporate intensive research, cutting-edge...
UMass Memorial expands AI triage tool to 5 more hospitals
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health is expanding its use of an artificial intelligence tool designed to support emergency department nurses and enhance patient safety across five additional hospitals.
UMass Memorial Health Scales KATE AI Platform Emergency Departments Systemwide to Enhance Patient Safety and Nurse Decision Support
Worcester, MA - UMass Memorial Health (UMMH), the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts, is proud to announce the expansion of KATE AI across an additional five hospital emergency departments, for what is now a total of seven, to enhance patient safety, optimize...
CHAI embarks on post-deployment monitoring for AI as FDA oversight lags
In the absence of a federal framework to monitor the impact of artificial intelligence in the clinic, the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) is stepping in on post-deployment oversight.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the capability to assess how models are performing in the real world after...
Ticking Clock for Home Care
Hospital at home programs have been a bright spot in the healthcare landscape for the past several years. They allow patients to receive inpatient-level care at their homes instead of a traditional hospital. Once a rarity, they’ve popped up across the country as a way to lighten the burden on brick...
[Expiration of the waiver would be a] huge step backwards in terms of our capacity challenges in the state, in terms of health equity, in terms of how we care for rural populations in particular.
Constantinos Michaelidis, MD | Medical Director, Hospital at Home
UMass Memorial Reaches Hospital-at-Home Milestone; Alper Reflects on Program’s Keys to Success
At a time when health systems are under increasing pressure to improve care delivery models, UMass Memorial Health has reached a significant milestone in its Hospital-at-Home program, admitting its 3,000th patient. This initiative, spearheaded by Dr. Eric Alper, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality...
We were at a point where our hospitals didn’t have enough space for the people that needed to be there. By moving acute-level care into the home, we believed we could provide safe, effective treatment while reducing the burden on our facilities.
Eric Alper, MD | Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer, and Chief Clinical Informatics Officer