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.

Industry Watcher’s Digest
An influential industry group, AdvaMed, really likes President-Elect Trump’s choice of Dr. Oz for CMS administrator.
5 ways to let AI raise patient satisfaction, elevate provider performance
It’s been years since AI proponents started promising big returns on healthcare providers’ investments in the technology. The results have yet to catch up with the pitches. What’s the holdup?
Industry Watcher’s Digest
Black-box outputs aren’t just a problem with AI. They’re also a problem with physicians.
When life sciences met artificial intelligence
The pace of AI adoption is quickening in the sector, which includes biopharmaceuticals, digital health, clinical diagnostics and medical devices.
Industry Watcher’s Digest
Working with Medicare Advantage insurance plans is like playing poker in the Wild West. And it’s gotten a lot harder to win since the cowboys started using AI.

ChatGPT excels at differential diagnostics in hard cases

Today’s generative AI—namely ChatGPT-4—is pretty darned good at parsing out probable diseases in difficult-to-diagnose patient cases.

June 20, 2023

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Society of Interventional Radiology bests ChatGPT at informing patients—but contest reveals shortcomings on both sides

As a source of patient information, human-authored SIRweb.org beats ChatGPT on readability and, in a word, helpfulness. However, the website needs work on those scores too.

June 19, 2023

Uber Health will soon deliver provider-ordered OTC medications and groceries to patients

The new offering through the ride-sharing company coincides with the “food as medicine” movement that is growing in popularity.

June 16, 2023

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

June 15, 2023

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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.

June 15, 2023

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

June 13, 2023

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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?

June 13, 2023

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.

June 9, 2023