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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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Both sides now: 6 contended points regarding AI in healthcare

In 2018, almost a quarter of surveyed Americans expected healthcare to be among the earliest and hardest hit of all employment sectors. However, in 2023, McKinsey & Co. projected overall demand for healthcare workers to grow by 30% by 2030.

January 4, 2024
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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

December 22, 2023
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AMA takes physicians’ collective temperature on current, planned use of AI

For AI to achieve sweeping adoption across U.S. medicine, physicians will need to be assured they won’t be held liable should clinical algorithms make mistakes.

December 22, 2023
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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

December 15, 2023
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What will it take to win consumer buy-in on GenAI for healthcare?

Americans aren’t OK with generative healthcare AI that was developed without physicians and is sold by vendors without track records. 

December 15, 2023
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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. 

December 13, 2023
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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

December 6, 2023
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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.

December 6, 2023

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.

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