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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 Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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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.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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?

Emit 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.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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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.

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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.

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The 6 riskiest medical and IoT devices deployed in healthcare

Among Internet of Things devices used in medical settings, Internet Protocol (IP) cameras are the most vulnerable to hackers. Meanwhile nurse call systems hold that troubling distinction among general medical devices.

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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.