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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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

New York Times artificial intelligence training data

The well for AI training data is running dry. Big Tech heavyweights are taking extraordinary measures to deal with the drought.

Bumping up hard against the reality of depleted data sources, three of AI’s top players have been acting like they’ve had no choice but to consider cutting corners.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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GenAI-focused market researchers: ‘The payer–provider divide is wide and has dangerous implications’

Providers and payers disagree on a lot of things. But the camps are united in their appreciation of workers who have skills relevant to advancing GenAI in healthcare. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Ready and willing but not yet able: America’s schools staring down GenAI

The nation’s K-12 teachers and school administrators are intrigued by—yet anxious about—the advance of AI into their world.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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5 tips on AI adoption from a frontline physician champion

AI adoption for real-world healthcare settings can’t happen in a vacuum. 

Around the web

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.

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.

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.