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 AI today: Microsoft’s supersmart medical AI, patients talking street to AI, LLMs don’t really care, more
Patients who put some personality into their symptom descriptions may flummox large language models—to unfortunate effect.
If present trends continue, the healthcare AI revolution may leave 56 million Americans behind
Research into the design and development of AI models for rural healthcare isn’t hard to come by. However, that’s about as far as most of the investigations go.
Healthcare AI today: Aggressive AI spenders, backend AI in healthcare, life-saving AI, more
The U.S. is one of 23 countries that consider workforce AI training and education only a medium priority. Indeed, our homeland has a less detailed plan than 13 other nations.
When healthcare AI meets the medical humanities
A primary aim of medical humanities as a field today is teaching medical students how to harmonize technological innovations with care models such that patients are treated as whole persons: They have not just bodies but also minds, relationships—and lives.
Healthcare AI today: Bipartisan AI policy guidance, AI claims denials, LLM brain rot, more
Federal lawmakers have a fresh resource to keep them up on healthcare AI that falls outside of formal FDA oversight. It comes in the form of a new report from the nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center.

RSNA, other medical imaging groups launch brain tumor artificial intelligence challenge

Winners of the 10th annual Brain Tumor Segmentation challenge will be recognized at the AI Showcase Theater during RSNA 2021.

CVS Health updates rewards program

CVS Health has updated its ExtraCare Rewards loyalty program for the first time in 20 years.

Healthcare execs say digital transformation is speeding up

The vast majority of healthcare executives say digital transformation across their organizations is accelerating, according to a recent survey of 399 executives from six countries.

Mayo Clinic closes 5 facilities

Mayo Clinic Health System is permanently closing five locations in Minnesota and Iowa.

‘Must be a more efficient way’: AI slashes turnaround times for radiology patient experience surveys

A data scientist at one Phoenix-area provider never anticipated he would enhance the customer experience after covering for a colleague vacationing in Thailand, he said at SIIM's Annual Meeting

Amazon launches medication price comparison tools

E-commerce giant Amazon has enabled an online price comparison tool for customers to find and compare the expected price of their medication.

Walmart acquires telehealth provider MeMD

Walmart is advancing its healthcare capabilities with the acquisition of telehealth provider MeMD.

Algorithm’s ‘unexpected’ weakness raises larger concerns about AI’s potential in broader populations

Researchers reported lower sensitivity and positive predictive values compared to prior studies when using a federally cleared support tool to identify intracranial hemorrhages.

Digital Transformation

Healthcare AI today: Microsoft’s supersmart medical AI, patients talking street to AI, LLMs don’t really care, more

If present trends continue, the healthcare AI revolution may leave 56 million Americans behind

Healthcare AI today: Aggressive AI spenders, backend AI in healthcare, life-saving AI, more

When healthcare AI meets the medical humanities

Healthcare AI today: Bipartisan AI policy guidance, AI claims denials, LLM brain rot, more