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This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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5 key criteria for AI prediction models in cardiology

AI-based prediction models have shown significant promise, but many are still flawed in a way that limits their value. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Ethical healthcare AI in 8 mnemonic elements

Artificial intelligence researchers are making a “great plea” to guide the ethical development and use of generative AI in medicine.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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How to tap QMS methodologies for speeding AI adoptions

It may hold that applying established people/process/technology principles can help hospitals move AI from experimental research settings to regulated clinical practice.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Overheard in Africa: AI may be just what the doctor ordered for better healthcare, stronger society

Technology leaders and academic researchers joined with healthcare professionals in Nigeria Nov. 13 to sketch out the future of African healthcare.

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The future of cardiology: 5 potentially game-changing AI studies from AHA 2023

AI was one of the biggest stories at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2023 conference in Philadelphia. Researchers presented new data about heart attack care, voice recognition algorithms, digital stethoscopes and more. 

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.