Digital changemakers on driving healthcare AI at scale

Before introducing panelists from Kaiser Permanente, Intermountain Healthcare and Clalit Health Services to discuss how they have implemented artificial intelligence to improve their organizations, Tom Lawry, author and managing director of Second Century Technology, framed the conversation on… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More

Harnessing artificial intelligence’s power is paramount, says Intermountain exec

What has ChatGPT wrought? A lot of nervous IT executives. The power of artificial intelligence is growing by the day. And healthcare C-suite executives and health IT leaders have a lot to consider when it comes to applying the technology for clinical and administrative uses. Albert Marinez,… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Most of the data generated is not used to its fullest potential

From left: Michael Meucci of Arcadia, Donna Roach of University of Utah Health, Srinivasan Suresh of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and and John Halamka of Mayo Clinic Platform speak at HIMSS23 in Chicago. CHICAGO – As much as 95% of hospital data goes unused, according to healthcare IT… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More

How AI can help sustain health systems

Everyone is talking artificial intelligence at HIMSS23. ChatGPT saw to that. But AI truly is a ground-breaking technology for healthcare. And natural language processing, a form of AI, has a lot of potential. Dr. Tim O’Connell is a practicing radiologist and founder and CEO of emtelligent… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Q&A: How BayCare Health System uses Amazon’s Alexa in patient rooms

At HIMSS23, Florida-based BayCare Health System announced it had deployed Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant at its newest hospital, Wesley Chapel, which opened its doors last month.  Craig Anderson, director of innovation at the health system, explains what Alexa Smart Properties does at BayCare’s… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Google to offer limited access to medical LLM

Google has announced that Med-PaLM 2, the tech giant’s medical large language model, will be available to select Google Cloud customers in the coming weeks to share feedback, explore use cases and for limited testing.  Med-PaLM 2 is a generative AI technology that utilizes Google’s LLMs to… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

GPT-4 and LLMs like it hold promise for healthcare, but caution is warranted

Regulators want to get their hands on artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, but workers love it.  Here healthcare sits at GPT’s intersection of push and pull. And like other health tech conferences, at HIMSS23 next week, there will be a lot of GPT pull.  Manny Krakaris, CEO of Augmedix, says… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

SAS & Duke Health announce AI partnership

Duke Health, a world-renowned academic medical center, and SAS, a global analytics leader, have formalized a letter of intent to collaborate and support initiatives focused on improving health equity and optimizing health outcomes. WHY IT MATTERS In combining the SAS’s analytics, including those… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Australian consortium bags grant to study aged care sensor tech for preventing falls

ASX-listed aged care tech company HSC Technology Group and its partners have received an industry grant to check the applicability of an IoT-based data analytics platform for preventing falls in residential aged care settings. HSC is working with aged care provider Whiddon, aged care specialist… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More

Data Humanity Lab uncovers socioeconomic data to accelerate health equity

Photo: Busà Photography/Getty Images  From the COVID-19 pandemic, health equity has emerged as an issue that needs to be addressed alongside clinical care. Accelerating health equity is the Data Humanity Lab, a research project that has mapped socio-economic data down to zip codes and… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More