Worcester-based UMass Memorial Medical Center is using “Kate,” an AI tool from software company Mednition, to help triage emergency department patients, the Boston Business Journal reported June 5.

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, I shared my insights about how Emergency Department (ED) design could respond to the needs of the patients, families, and healthcare workers on the frontlines of ...

New research from the UBC Sauder School of Business reveals that Metro Vancouver emergency patient acuity levels sometimes come second to wait time targets, largely due to doctors being unclear around ...

Over the last 20 years, vastly overcrowded emergency departments (EDs) in the U.S. have resulted in worsened patient outcomes, preventable errors and staff burnout. In EDs, most decisions are made ...

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 ...

Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients ...

A machine learning model has been proven effective as a decision-support tool for dispatchers of Emergency Medical Services (EMS), resulting in improved triage quality and ambulance utilization, ...

A large language model could help assess patient acuity in emergency departments, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. When given pairs of patient histories extracted from emergency ...

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

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Dec. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Every shift, every day, emergency nurses must make rapid and accurate triage decisions for every patient who enters the emergency department.