Ambient energy usage readings can support remote patient monitoring
The Cleveland-based Eaton Corporation, a power management company, announced that it developed an ambient monitoring API for use, on a subscription basis, for its sensor-based smart circuit breaker. The readings can flag anomalies, like a spike in night-time bathroom visits, as part of patient… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
UMC Health System to deploy AI-based gun detection
Lubbock, Texas based UMC Health System announced this week that it will deploy artificial intelligence to help keep its patients employees safer from gun violence. The technology is from ZeroEyes, which develops systems for firearm detection. In as little as three to five seconds, AI software… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Ethical guardrails are essential to making generative AI work for healthcare
Guardrails are a hot topic in the world of generative AI. Without much government regulation, it is falling on businesses and leaders to create a safe environment for users to interact with generative AI. One of the largest problems cited to date are data “hallucinations,” or inaccuracies in… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Teladoc Health will integrate Microsoft AI for automated clinical documentation
Telehealth platform Teladoc Health is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to integrate the tech giant’s AI solutions into its platform, allowing providers to automate clinical documentation creation during virtual exams. The virtual care company will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Singapore’s A*STAR, EVYD announce $8M project to support digital health collabs
Health tech company EVYD Technology and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore’s lead R&D agency, have launched a joint AI research lab focused on population health and digital health. At the same time, they announced a S$10 million ($7.5 million) project under the joint… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Google’s medical LLM proves increasing accuracy
A study performed by Google researchers and published in Nature reveals the tech giant’s generative AI technology Med-PaLM provided long-form answers aligned with scientific consensus on 92.6% of questions submitted, which is in line with clinician-generated answers at 92.9%. Med-PaLM is a… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
HCSC AI-enabled prior auth tool reduces claims submissions to 6 minutes
Health Care Service Corporation says its prior authorization tool, first developed in 2021, can streamline the submission process and provide auto-approvals when certain key criteria are met. WHY IT MATTERS The prior auth tool was piloted on specialty pharmacy and behavioral health requests in… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
Epic-linked voice AI improves provider experience at Franciscan Missionaries
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, serves patients in Louisiana and Mississippi through a network of nine hospitals and numerous clinics and physicians. The health system’s unified physician organization comprises more than 1,100 adult and… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more
NLP effectively measures SDOH in EHRs, says report
Without the need for deep learning and neural network models, researchers used machine learning to extract social determinants of health information on housing challenges, financial stability and employment status from unstructured patient data in electronic health records. WHY IT… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Intermountain to lead AI-driven research aiming to improve care for critically-ill patients
Part of the National Institutes of Health’s Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Pneumonia and Sepsis Phenotyping Consortium, Intermountain Health will help lead the use of artificial intelligence technologies to better understand the dissimilarities and underlying mechanisms of critical illness… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more