AI

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By  Nathan Eddy 01:23 pm December 18, 2023
At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in San Diego on Dec. 14, a group of panelists outlined tactical pathways to artificial intelligence adoption and investment, including how to maximize impact and decisions around adopting existing tools or building new AI infrastructure. Anne Snowdon, CEO of Scan Health and chief research officer at HIMSS, said that determining strategic priorities and setting...
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By  Dr. Liz Kwo 02:27 pm December 15, 2023
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is the result of increased demand for tailored healthcare solutions, lower costs, higher accuracy pertaining to medical decisions and diagnosis to improve patient health outcomes.  With an estimated valuation of $15.1 billion for the global market in 2022, AI in healthcare is an irreversible process that is already reshaping medicine and...
A Klinik Pintar clinic staff getting a patient's vitals
By  Adam Ang 12:59 am December 15, 2023
Klinik Pintar scores $5M to develop 'hybrid' clinic solution Jakarta-based digital clinic network Klinik Pintar has raised $5 million in an extended Series A funding round led by Altara Ventures. Formerly Medigo, the company offers various clinical services, including teleconsultation and home health services. It runs a tech-enabled network of 22 primary, specialty, and corporate clinics. Klinik...
A senior patient in an in-person consultation with a doctor in a clinic
By  Adam Ang 12:57 am December 15, 2023
New AI app for facial palsy screening Computer scientists from Australia and Iraq have developed an AI-based diagnostic tool to detect facial palsy. They have come up with a detection system for facial palsy featuring a microcomputer, digital camera, and deep learning algorithm. Based on an entry in the journal BioMedInformatics, researchers from the Middle Technical University in Baghdad and the...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:15 pm December 14, 2023
Google announced the release of MedLM, two foundational models built off Med-PaLM 2, designed to answer medical questions, generate insights from unstructured data and summarize medical information.   The tech giant said that through piloting its LLMs with healthcare organizations, it has learned the most effective AI models are designed to address specific use cases. Therefore, the large model...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:37 am December 14, 2023
Leaders in the digital health space told MobiHealthNews their predictions about where AI will make the most significant mark in healthcare in 2024.    Following the considerable increase in the use of AI in healthcare in 2023, stakeholders expect next year to bring even wider adoption of the technology across various sectors, from implementation in physician-facing tools that help ease provider...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:49 pm December 12, 2023
AI in healthcare and value-based care enablement are top developing trends in healthcare, but lack scalability so far, while big box retailers as providers and data interoperability have shown a high volume of activity in 2023, and are scaling with long-term trajectories. Rock Health's report, which utilized data to determine the sequence of developments in the digital health space this year,...
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By  Jessica Hagen 06:20 pm December 7, 2023
A study done by Google Research in collaboration with Google DeepMind reveals the tech giant developed an LLM with conversational and collaborative capabilities that can provide an accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) and help improve clinicians' diagnostic reasoning and accuracy in diagnosing complex medical conditions.   The LLM for DDx builds upon Med-PaLM 2, the company's generative AI...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:46 pm December 7, 2023
Leaders in the digital health space relayed to MobiHealthNews what stood out to them in 2023 as the year draws to an end. Many noted the meteoric rise of genAI in 2023 and expectations of growing adoption of the technology in 2024, emphasizing the importance of treading carefully as the tech is further implemented. Other stakeholders pinpointed bankruptcies and mergers and acquisitions as being...