Hacker News with Generative AI: Hospitals

Fungus labeled 'urgent threat' by CDC is spreading rapidly, hospital study finds (thehill.com)
New cases of a dangerous, drug-resistant fungus have been identified in at least two states’ hospital systems.
Elderly patients can deteriorate in the ER. This team works to get them out (cbc.ca)
It may seem counterintuitive, but hospital emergency rooms can be hazardous to the health of elderly patients.
NHS major 'cyber incident' forces hospitals to use pen and paper (theregister.com)
The ongoing cyber security incident affecting a North West England NHS group has forced sites to fall back on pen-and-paper operations.
Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospital shows it can be done (ftm.nl)
Het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis heeft een wereldwijde primeur: het ontwikkelde zonder hulp van commerciële investeerders een behandeling tegen uitgezaaide kanker.
A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals (codastory.com)
A Hospital Kept a Brain-Damaged Patient on Life Support to Boost Statistics (propublica.org)
On a Thursday morning this past April, 61-year-old Darryl Young was lying unconscious in the eighth-floor intensive care unit of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.
AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds (cbc.ca)
A year-and-a-half-long study on Chartwatch, an artificial intelligence system in use at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, shows the tool led to a striking 26 per cent drop in the number of unexpected deaths.
London hospitals cancel cancer surgeries after cyber-attack (theguardian.com)
Scents and memories at the hospital (2019) (scopeblog.stanford.edu)
Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes (statnews.com)