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If present trends continue, the healthcare AI revolution may leave 56 million Americans behind
Research into the design and development of AI models for rural healthcare aren’t hard to come by. However, that’s about as far as most of the investigations go.
What can federal health agencies do to revive the fading trust of the public?
Confidence in public health entities is spiraling downward in the U.S., and once-revered Washington institutions like the CDC and NIH are among the casualties in serious condition. How to break the negative momentum?
AAP, other physician societies double down on Kennedy-crossing vaccination stance
5 high-profile physician leaders: ‘Misinformation, politicization of commonsense public health efforts and sudden changes to federal vaccine guidance are creating mass confusion and diminishing trust in public health.’
Healthcare AI today: Aggressive AI spenders, backend AI in healthcare, life-saving AI, more
The U.S. is one of 23 countries that consider workforce AI training and education only a medium priority. Indeed, our homeland has a less detailed plan than 13 other nations.
When healthcare AI meets the medical humanities
A primary aim of medical humanities as a field today is teaching medical students how to harmonize technological innovations with care models such that patients are treated as whole persons: They have not just bodies but also minds, relationships—and lives.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

5 tips on AI adoption from a frontline physician champion

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

artificial intelligence robot evaluates healthcare data

New data registry will track how AI-powered plaque assessments impact cardiologist decisions

HeartFlow hopes to gather real-world data from up to 10,000 patients with suspected CAD.

Newsweek ranked the 50 best heart hospitals in the world

Hospital accused of implanting experimental heart valve in young patient without proper consent

Members of Congress are now asking the FDA to investigate a parent's claim that her 14-year-old son was treated with an experimental heart valve without proper consent. The valve eventually failed and had to be replaced. The hospital has said its heart team did nothing wrong.

‘Allyship’ needed between nurses and MDs to take on workforce crisis

“Most health systems rely on a financial cost-containment model to inform staffing decisions. Clinicians understand the patient populations and needs over time, yet they are currently excluded from most staffing decisions,” the authors write.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

artificial intelligence for family medicine primary care

Large language AI put to the test for potential adopters in primary care

ChatGPT is only so-so at letting physicians know if any given clinical study is relevant to their patient rosters and, as such, deserving of a full, time-consuming read. On the other hand ...

Virtual reality (VR) can help cardiologists plan for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures and predict the presence and severity of post-TAVR paravalvular leak (PVL), according to new research published in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology.[1]

VR before TAVR predicts paravalvular leak in high-risk patients

Performing virtual reality simulations before TAVR may help cardiologists anticipate when PVL could be an issue in patients with severe BAV AS.

Care Delivery

If present trends continue, the healthcare AI revolution may leave 56 million Americans behind

What can federal health agencies do to revive the fading trust of the public?

AAP, other physician societies double down on Kennedy-crossing vaccination stance

Healthcare AI today: Aggressive AI spenders, backend AI in healthcare, life-saving AI, more

When healthcare AI meets the medical humanities