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.

Artificial intelligence AI in healthcare news

Healthcare AI newswatch: Regulatory sparring partners, AI nutrition labels, agentic AI basics, more

Medical device companies navigating regulatory pathways should know: Large language models are not reliable guides. 

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HIMSS survey report: Beware insider threats to cybersecurity involving AI

Almost one in three healthcare organizations allow their people to use AI without formal restrictions. 

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Primary care is primed for AI. But is AI aligned with primary care?

Fewer than one-third of primary care clinicians have a say in selecting the AI products their institutions expect them to fold into their clinical workflows. That’s a problem. 

Compremium has developed a noninvasive external assessment that does away with needles for the diagnosis of venous pressure conditions using AI-enabled monitoring.

Healthcare AI newsmakers: Chief AI & transformation officers, AI Rorschach testers, citizens united for responsible healthcare AI, more

Less alarm fatigue in overworked pediatric nurses means more time for imperiled pediatric patients. 

AI pain management

Machine learning vs. bodily pain: 5 points of promise and challenge

We have seen the future of pain management, and it is in automated assessments aided by AI.

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Trump-era AI regs, AI sign language, AI dentistry, more

The Trump administration will probably play to type when it comes to regulating AI. 

Generative AI hospital comparison shopping

Generative AI isn’t changing everything for patients and providers—but it’s not leaving much unaffected, either

Generative AI is altering the way healthcare consumers size up hospitals, group practices and individual providers. But the comparison shopping would pose a challenge to healthcare organizations even if AI hadn’t entered the picture.