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.

Report: Harvard Medical School data backing healthcare-focused Microsoft Copilot update
According to the Wall Street Journal, insider sources said a major update to Microsoft’s AI chatbot could be released before the end of the month, designed to be more reliable at answering medical queries.
Healthcare AI today: Healthcare AI ROI, Microsoft mainlines healthcare AI, Google gets slapped back from within, more
What good is AI in healthcare if it doesn’t improve financial margins? The question is getting posed in the C-suites of provider organizations and insurance companies.
AI ‘manikins’ create lifelike simulations for medical students
The robots can be used to simulate medical emergencies, like seizures and heart attacks. They were demonstrated at a college in North Carolina, where clinical students are getting hands-on learning.
Healthcare AI today: High-level healthcare AI kerfuffle, ARiSE wellness check, Dr. Bot book, more
A battle of words is brewing between the White House and the Coalition for Health AI.
Healthcare market research firm Press Ganey scooped up in $6.75B AI merger
Qualtrics, which uses artificial intelligence to measure public satisfaction and consumer trends, is buying Press Ganey outright, citing the need for more healthcare-specific data to improve its technology.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days. The Sam Altman-Arianna Huffington ‘AI health coach’ has attracted detractors ...

'Well-resourced and innovation-focused hospitals should mentor and provide technical support to underfunded or smaller hospitals.'

How to mitigate institutional inequities involving AI

When it comes to adopting healthcare AI, large, well-off hospitals are likely to frequently homer while smaller, struggling institutions go down looking. (Baseball analogy in honor of tonight’s Midsummer Classic.)

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

6 ways to convert GenAI adoption into real business value

Using the technology and making it work for purpose are two different things. And the U.S. leads all countries in terms of full implementation, at 24% (vs. 19% for China).

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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3 aspects of cancer care ripe for AI augmentation

Oncologists using or considering AI tools tend to agree among themselves on three points of ethics—and to recognize the same number of ways AI could help advance the state of patient care.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Elusive quadruple aim revisited for the generative AI era

Is U.S. healthcare capable of achieving its own quadruple aim? Or is that ideal destined to remain a perpetual pursuit, always chased but never really caught?

Digital Transformation

Report: Harvard Medical School data backing healthcare-focused Microsoft Copilot update

Healthcare AI today: Healthcare AI ROI, Microsoft mainlines healthcare AI, Google gets slapped back from within, more

AI ‘manikins’ create lifelike simulations for medical students

Healthcare AI today: High-level healthcare AI kerfuffle, ARiSE wellness check, Dr. Bot book, more

Healthcare market research firm Press Ganey scooped up in $6.75B AI merger