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.

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Silent AI threats, overeager clinical AI, trustworthy AI therapists, more

Some AI decision-support models have a proclivity for recommending aggressive care pathways. And doing so on the basis of patient demographics, not medical necessity.

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Ambient scribe technology all the rage despite uneven interest and ‘still imperfect’ performance

As applications of AI spread rapidly across healthcare, ambient scribes are poised to become one of the fastest technology adoptions in the history of the sector. 

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Fail-fast AI skunk works, writerly doctors avoiding AI scribes, more

Is trial and error any way for a sprawling health system to roll out AI? Duke Health’s chief medical information officer believes so. 

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Epic, Microsoft lead the AI vendor charge into healthcare: KLAS

Many if not most hospitals and other provider organizations take a decided interest in what their peer institutions are doing with AI. A major motivator for the keen curiosity is gauging how well one is keeping up with the Joneses. So to speak.

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5 ways AI can help a hospital’s discharge department

Among the myriad processes to which AI could be meaningfully applied in healthcare, perhaps few are more easily overlooked than discharging patients from the hospital. 

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Great expectations for GenAI, disaster-ready AI, Dr. Oz on payer AI, more

Investors are betting on generative AI to solve costly provider workflow inefficiencies. So are provider executives. 

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When health accessories grow up, they want to be wearable AI

Wearable health gadgets equipped with AI present myriad opportunities and challenges to healthcare consumers and the healthcare professionals who diagnose, treat and track them.