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.

patients who write online reviews of providers

What providers should know about patients who post healthcare reviews online

When dissatisfied patients slam provider entities in online reviews, they tend to focus on administrative frustrations and thwarted requests. By contrast, satisfied healthcare consumers write quick, list-like rundowns of things that pleased them. 

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Healthcare AI today: Whom to sue, invite into AI governance and altogether avoid (unless you want a new religion)

The question of legal responsibility for AI gone wrong in healthcare remains unsettled. The only sure thing is a lot of finger pointing. 

wearable health device

AI-equipped wearables may have an important future in public health surveillance

Wearable health devices outfitted with AI seem poised to transition from consumer novelties to an integral layer of U.S. public-health intelligence. 

AI Action Plan from Trump

Healthcare AI today: Action plan arguments, ways to monetize GenAI in healthcare, more

Or maybe the White House’s AI Action Plan will spur a mix of positive opportunities, negative challenges—and neutral adjustments.

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President outlines public-private vision for mass digitizing of health data, reinstates Presidential Fitness Test for youth

What President Trump has in mind is a populace equipped with smartphone apps run by tech companies and confident enough in those apps to willingly upload much if not all of their personal health data. All that and fit kids too. 

Woke DEI

Healthcare AI today: Woke AI pros & cons, AI in the states, Doximity’s free AI scribe, more

We’ve looked at woke from all sides now. Woke AI, that is. It’s become a widely discussed thing, thanks to President Donald Trump’s July 23 executive order “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government.” 

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Implementing LLMs in healthcare? First, do some harm reduction

By viewing large-language AI models through the lens of harm-reduction thinking, healthcare adopters can cultivate a responsible, ethical and optimal integration of the technology. 

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Healthcare AI today: Trump’s American AI offensive, healthcare’s lack of regulatory cohesion, chatbots’ silence, more

President Donald Trump has crystallized his No. 1 priority for artificial intelligence. Unshockingly, it’s “winning the AI race.”