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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AI vs. medication errors, Health Tech Investment Act preps, employment apocalypse fears, more

Remember when comprehensive checklists and human vigilance were going to end medical error? That hasn’t happened yet. AI might be able to help. 

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How to let AI simplify the complexities of care (rather than allowing it to do the opposite)

Healthcare AI can add considerable value to patient care practices, but it can also “just add noise to an already complex system.” 

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AI newswatch: OpenAI goes to the UAE, patients get cyberchondria, more

Like remoras hitching a ride on a shark, private businesses are capitalizing on President Trump’s AI-aggressive trip to the Middle East. 

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4 digital-health skillsets today’s medical educators should give tomorrow’s medical doctors

Due to the ceaseless rush of technological advancements into medicine, many future physicians graduate medical school underprepared for the digital healthcare environment. 

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AI newswatch: American AI in the United Arab Emirates, healthcare AI investment, med schools embrace AI, more

Here’s a big thing to watch for in the wake of the President’s flashy Middle East tour: the AI “acceleration partnership” between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates. 

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Vocal AI can sub for professionals to give and grade elderly cognitive exams

When paired with willing older adults, talking AI can administer and assess preliminary dementia tests in much the same way—and with similar effectiveness—as human specialists.

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5 things to know about AI-toting healthcare ‘unicorns’

Why do investors equate these companies with beautiful, mythical beasts? Because startups with such dazzling attributes are—or long were—rarely seen.

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Newswatch: Trump’s AI extraversion, FDA’s first CAIO, healthcare AI’s true value, more

Where a cautious President Biden wanted to confine American AI know-how to America, a freewheeling President Trump wants to turn it loose—at least to select friends and allies.