Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

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Overheard around the Kaiser nurses’ protest over AI in healthcare
Healthcare leaders around the U.S. might want to take notice of what’s going on in the streets of San Francisco this week.
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10 things you may have suspected about AI but didn’t know for sure till now
All around the world, people are increasingly wise to the advance of AI. More than a few are growing ever more uneasy about it. And yet workers equipped with AI are both more productive and better at their jobs.
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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

May 2, 2023

ChatGPT bests physicians at patient care

AI outplays physicians at informing patients and feeling their pain too

Unexpected empathy: Blinded healthcare professionals consistently scored the AI—yes, a ChatGPT model—higher than the doctors even for bedside manners.

May 2, 2023

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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

April 27, 2023

Large language AI ChatGPT concerns thought leaders

Generative AI: 5 concerns voiced by healthcare thought leaders

Every industry on earth is buzzing over the promise and potential of ChatGPT and similarly sharp AI models, whether “large language” or another generative form. Healthcare is no exception. But shouldn’t it be?

April 26, 2023

Amit Trivedi, Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) director of informatics and health IT standards, discussed these challenges of next-level interoperability with Health Exec at the HIMSS 2023 annual meeting. #HIMSS #HIMSS23 #HIMS2023 #interoperability

What missing pieces remain in health IT interoperability?

Amit Trivedi, HIMSS director of informatics and health IT standards, explains the remaining gaps in interoperability and how it remains a moving target.

April 25, 2023

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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

April 25, 2023

Moderna throws in with IBM over quantum computing, generative AI for healthcare

Fresh off its success using AI to develop a blockbuster COVID vaccine, up-and-coming biotech player Moderna (founded 2010) has won the confidence of 112-year-old Big Blue as a strategic partner.

April 25, 2023

What healthcare AI investors have been saying at HIMSS23

If great power obligates its wielder to exercise great responsibility, those advancing AI in healthcare are up to their necks in duty.

April 21, 2023

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.