As the latest virus surge swamps hospitals, researchers consider the role machine learning could play in making decisions about care. The latest surge of COVID infections has hospitals crowded, ...

Background: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) currently face inacceptable delays in initial treatment, and long, costly hospital stays due to suboptimal initial triage and ...

Emergency departments nationwide face mounting pressure, from rising patient acuity to staffing shortages and operational inefficiencies. In a recent discussion hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and ...

Background The annual births in our hospital (a regional perinatal centre for the southeastern coastal region) had increased ...

After weeks of warning from frontline doctors, the province acknowledged that major hospitals in Alberta are operating above ...

Researchers from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University have developed an algorithm that can predict patients’ disease severity and hospital lengths of stay. The researchers, which also included ...

A machine learning algorithm can accurately detect traumatic intracranial hemorrhage using information collected before patients reach the hospital, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open ...

In the midst of the uncertainty, Epic, a private electronic health record giant and a key purveyor of American health data, accelerated the deployment of a clinical prediction tool called the ...

American hospitals are once again at a breaking point, overwhelmed by Covid and forced to invoke crisis standards of care, where life-saving resources are rationed and distributed based not on need ...

Hospital leaders announced that a massive influx of patients had left Visalia's Kaweah Health full, with more than 60 people awaiting admission in the hospital's emergency department. The hospital ...