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.

Healthcare cybersecurity has never been so complicated—or so plannable
AI technologies have changed daily life for provider organizations and industry partners alike. Arguably the biggest single difficulty to emerge from the complex transformation is the risk of cybersecurity breaches.
Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI to speed development of new weight loss drugs
The maker of popular GLP-1 agonists Wegovy and Ozempic said technology from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will allow it to sift through and make sense of massive datasets to identify potential new uses for its diabetes and obesity treatments.
Nuanced clinical reasoning remains beyond the ken of frontier LLMs
Harvard researchers put 21 state-of-the-art large language models through their paces. The results are in.
Patients feeling less sure about medical AI these days
Consumer affinity for AI in healthcare has plummeted over the past two years, a new survey report shows.
Cybersecurity experts believe AI is changing their work at a ‘fundamental’ level
Is the edge with the cybercriminals looking for weak points in firewalls? Or the security professionals trying to stop the bad guys from finding any?

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Deep fakes are more dangerous to healthcare than we may have thought.

4 ways to help nurses make friends with algorithms

Nurses tend to feel optimistic if not exactly excited about AI’s advances into their profession. Those who hold back tend to share a common concern—sacrificing care quality for the sake of tech-enabled efficiency.