By Aaron Wagner for Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — New funding from the National Science Foundation’s Build and Broaden Program will enable a team of researchers from Penn State and…
How do humans understand speech?
The Race to Save Indigenous Languages, Using Automatic Speech Recognition
By Tanner Stening for News@Northeastern Michael Running Wolf still has that old TI-89 graphing calculator he used in high school that helped propel his interest in technology. “Back then, my teachers saw I was…
Why do these 15 states have so few ASCs?
By Marcus Robertson for Becker’s ASC Review With the COVID-19 pandemic ushering in many changes to the healthcare industry, leaders need to recognize emerging patterns to identify areas primed for growth. In figures recently…
Physician burnout in healthcare: Quo vadis?
By Ifran Khan for Fast Company Burnout was included as an occupational phenomenon in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) by the World Health Organization in 2019. Today, burnout is prevalent in the forms…
Voice Recognition Is Awesome, But How Did It Get So Good?
By Arthur Brown for Make Use Of Voice recognition technology has a rich history of development that’s led it to what it is today. It’s at the core of modern life, giving…
Are residency policies creating physician shortages? 5 recent studies to know
By Patsy Newitt for Becker’s Hospital Review California has the most active specialty physicians in the U.S., according to 2021 data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Here are five things to…
Physician admits to stealing more than $500K from New Jersey practice
By Marcus Robertson for Becker’s Hospital Review Walter Sytnik, DO, of Voorhees, N.J., admitted Sept. 9 to defrauding his former employer, an unnamed New Jersey medical practice, to the tune of more than $500,000….
Three Ways AI Is Improving Assistive Technology
Wendy Gonzalez for Forbes Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are some of the buzziest terms in tech and for a good reason. These innovations have the potential to tackle some…
Embracing AI-enabled technologies as a strategic asset
By Robert Budman for Nuance Blog Earlier this month, we learned that nearly 70% of health system executives plan more significant investments in AI-powered technologies to support a wide range of use cases, particularly…
Talking it through: speech recognition takes the strain of digital transformation
By Nuance for Healthcare IT HITN: COVID-19 has further exposed employee stress and burnout as major challenges for healthcare. Tell us how we can stop digital transformation technologies from simply adding to…