Pharmacy
Since its botched Microsoft security update this past week, most healthcare organizations seem to be resuming normal operations. But one of the largest IT snafus ever shows that the industry must better prepare for third-party technology disruptions.
CrowdSrike says the BSOD outage for Microsoft Windows was caused by a botched security update. It has resulted in surgical cancellations, ambulance diversions and other patient care disruptions at doctors' offices, ERs and hospitals around the globe.
"By relying on the AI technology to convert information into discrete data elements in our Epic EHR, we have significantly reduced the amount of manual entry required by our staff," an inpatient pharmacy operations supervisor reports.
A 50% reduction in nurse-created discrepancies at medication cabinets and a 20% decrease in the time nurses spend dispensing meds have been two big wins. A 30% increase in storage capacity on the floors is another.
Also, South Australia is introducing free virtual mental health support for young people.
Tx-LLM was fine-tuned from Google's Med-PaLM 2 and created to analyze a variety of chemical or biological entities to assist with the drug-discovery pipeline.
Using the FHIR standard can help organizations like the VA connect rapidly to drug data, which paves the way for real-time surveillance that improves patient safety and identifies adverse events tied to medication.
New partnerships with Mayo Clinic and Memorial Hermann Health Systems will bring Zipline's autonomous home-delivery service to Houston, Jacksonville and Rochester, Minnesota.
Fink is an advisor and resource to the CVS Health Board of Directors and to senior management.
Stolen data involved those e-prescriptions issued before the eRx transition late last year.
