Healthcare AI newsmakers: Chief AI & transformation officers, AI Rorschach testers, citizens united for responsible healthcare AI, more

Compremium has developed a noninvasive external assessment that does away with needles for the diagnosis of venous pressure conditions using AI-enabled monitoring.

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

  • Less alarm fatigue in overworked pediatric nurses, more time for imperiled pediatric patients. Researchers have demonstrated the use of machine learning to accurately predict critical events in hospitalized children. The early-warning system significantly boosted watchfulness for clinical deterioration in patients at elevated risk. In the process it helped healthcare workers appropriately avoid running toward overactive bedside monitors. The work was conducted at the University of Wisconsin and described at this week’s annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. A physician observer says the program “will not help us treat children, but it can be very helpful by reducing the number of alerts to which we respond.” This means more time to focus attention on hospitalized children who are genuinely having a problem. The system is called pCART, for pediatric Calculated Assessment of Risk and Triage. MedPage Today has coverage. 
     
  • What does the chief AI officer of a large health system do all day? Since the role is new, the answer greatly depends on the health system as well as the individual leader. At one big system, nine-state AdventHealth, CAIO Rob Purinton keeps in mind that the rise of GenAI has sent “lots of imaginations into overdrive.” But there are only so many problems in healthcare that can be solved with any kind of AI. “The role for me is to help figure out what are some of those appropriate uses and how [we can] integrate them in a safe and responsible way,” Purinton tells the Orlando Business Journal. “What are the things that will improve the value proposition for our patients—mainly, what will help them get better outcomes in a better experience for a better value?” 
     
  • Chief transformation officers have to be AI hawkeyes too. “We ain’t seen nothing yet,” says one, Sara Vaezy of 51-hospital Providence health system. She’s looking for 2025 to see advances in agentic AI. And she expects search engines to be majorly disrupted—especially within the context of healthcare. “We’re going to have so much more ability to bring in not only real-world evidence or scientific evidence into decision-making,” Vaezy said in a recent podcast, “but also just basic additional context at the point of care.”
     
  • Concerned folks in Ireland are calling for an independent commissioner to oversee AI in healthcare across their homeland. The Citizens Jury on the Use of AI in Healthcare would also like to see a national healthcare AI strategy, an op-out option for patients and 22 more checks on the technology. In an open letter to the Minister for Health, the group states that the integration of AI into healthcare represents nothing less than a “defining opportunity for Ireland.” The citizens also see an opening for Ireland’s national government to “lead with innovation and integrity, ensuring AI serves the common good while upholding the highest standards of patient care.” The Irish Medical Times has more.
     
  • 24/7 customer assistance, data collection and information provision—just three benefits of AI chatbots in healthcare. The rundown comes courtesy of Appinventiv. In a Feb. 25 blogpost extolling the virtues of the nonhuman health helpers, the global app developer cites research projecting the market to top $10.25 billion by 2034. This market will see “a huge boom in upcoming years due to the increasing adoption of AI-driven virtual assistants, rising demand for remote patient engagement and the growing need for cost-effective healthcare solutions,” writes technology VP Amardeep Rawat. His post also names 10 patient-care use cases he sees as the top 10 in the category. 
     
  • A penny for your thoughts, AI? If Rorschach tests offer insights into a person’s psyche, they also expose AI’s virtual mindfulness. And it seems the technology is pretty good at seeing actuality in abstraction. After correctly identifying an image as a Rorschach inkblot, one AI model waxed enthusiastic. “For me, it resembles something symmetrical, possibly two animals or figures facing each other, or a single entity with wings outstretched,” the chatbot told a tester. “The beauty of these inkblots is that they invite individual interpretations!” The BBC has more on the interesting experiment. 
     
  • For a glimpse at what AI-driven healthcare is coming to, look to Saudi Arabia. That’s where you’ll find patients of Seha Virtual Hospital, which bills itself as the world’s largest such entity. “Through AI-powered diagnostics, wearable tech integration and seamless patient monitoring, the SVH is geared to bring world-class healthcare directly to Saudi citizens—wherever they are,” Entrepreneur Middle East reports. And with a population topping 33 million, the country is surely one to watch. “Seha Virtual Hospital isn’t just a digital transformation story. It’s a blueprint for the future of healthcare.”
     
  • Think twice before blurting out an unchecked thought during this, the ambient AI age. So advises attorney David M. Glaser, Esq., in an opinion piece published by ICD-10 Monitor. “The modern world is making it much easier to record everything,” he points out. “And those recordings are often going to be tools used by plaintiffs’ attorneys and government investigators against folks.” 
     
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Dave Pearson
Dave Pearson

Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.

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