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.

Overconfident patients, underconfident nurses, pilot failures & more AI briefings
More than 75% of U.S. nurses have high hopes in generative AI’s promise for improving productivity. But less than half feel prepared to use it effectively.
Why Condi Rice believes AI and other emerging technologies have our world in a ‘hinge-of-history’ moment | and more AI news, views & findings
Those who closely follow news and views on AI risk missing out on nine other technology categories that are changing our world just as fast. Or, as Stanford Prof. Condoleezza Rice puts it, “History will judge not only what we invented but also how and why we chose to do so.”
AI roundup: Your doctor’s choice for clinical AI | Amazon, Walmart & ecosystem AI | 2026’s top healthcare technology hazard
Can you guess the (lightly disputed) champion of healthcare AI suppliers? Here’s a hint. This company caters to physicians and just this week reached a valuation of $12B.
AI roundup: Platform vs. patchwork | The new workplace imbalance | Good-enough healthcare AI | more
2026 may be the year that many if not most healthcare leaders arrive at a fork in the road to mature AI implementation.
AI briefing: Hyped AI goes to the hospital | Is healthcare AI sustainable? | US & Israel power up AI partnership | more
Just because a healthcare AI product gets loudly promoted doesn’t mean its claims are bogus. The salient question is whether or not it performs as well in a clinical setting as it did in a research lab—or in a marketer’s mind.

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Implementing point-of-care AI? 5 firm facts to keep in mind

If healthcare AI is to flourish outside of academic research settings and industry R&D departments, it will need to win over its most difficult-to-impress audience: healthcare workers in hospitals.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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AI in mental healthcare: 5 questions & answers

It stands to reason that the branch of healthcare most reliant on the use of language in clinical practice would embrace large language AI. But is U.S. mental healthcare on board with the notion?

Clinics tap GPT-4 to ease charting burden, improve patient care

The hope is that the GPT-4-based notes assistant will ease the burden of manual charting on physicians while also offering patients more personalized visit summaries, Carbon Health announced June 5.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Medical educators encouraged to equip physicians-to-be with 4 AI competencies

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have developed an elective course that can quickly transform fourth-year medical students from functional AI novices to budding AI experts.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Digital Transformation

Overconfident patients, underconfident nurses, pilot failures & more AI briefings

Why Condi Rice believes AI and other emerging technologies have our world in a ‘hinge-of-history’ moment | and more AI news, views & findings

AI roundup: Your doctor’s choice for clinical AI | Amazon, Walmart & ecosystem AI | 2026’s top healthcare technology hazard

AI roundup: Platform vs. patchwork | The new workplace imbalance | Good-enough healthcare AI | more

AI briefing: Hyped AI goes to the hospital | Is healthcare AI sustainable? | US & Israel power up AI partnership | more