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Feb 19, 2024·Beckers Hospital Review
Excitement and concern surround AI's rapid growth in healthcare; ChatGPT offers automation, data analysis, and complex chatbot comms. However, trained biases, information security, and accuracy remain risks. Health systems struggle with implementing AI solutions, balancing automation and medical decision-making enhancement with potential dependence dangers. The ECRI announced "insufficient AI medical tech governance" as a top 2024 health tech hazard, emphasizing continuous accuracy and appropriateness monitoring. Further, a UPMC and KLAS survey revealed 65% of health systems lack a governance policy for AI use, while a paltry 55% of systems with policies updated them in the past year. Experts anticipate technology and automation will drive significant healthcare transformations within the next three years, with AI expected to revolutionize operations, scheduling, and patient access.
Feb 19, 2024·TechCrunch
TechCrunch highlights AI-contributing women, countering gender gap indication from The New York Times. Just 16% AI faculty women per Stanford study; World Economic Forum states 26% analytics or AI positions are women-held. With AI field hurt by lack of women, promoting stronger mentorships and diverse workplace policies may instigate change.
Feb 19, 2024·Tom's Hardware
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son aims to raise $100 billion for new chip venture, Project Izanagi, planning to rival Nvidia in AI processors and contribute to artificial general intelligence (AGI) development. It remains uncertain whether AI processors designed by Project Izanagi will use technologies such as instruction set architecture developed by Arm. How the new venture will co-exist with Arm's supposed plans to create reference chip designs for various workloads is also unclear. Son intends to invest $30 billion from SoftBank, with the remaining $70 billion potentially raised from Middle Eastern institutions. The specifics of Izanagi's funding and execution are still determined.
Feb 18, 2024·Business Insider
Air Canada ordered to compensate misled passenger by chatbot. Jake Moffatt sought compensation after chatbot misinformation about bereavement rates. Despite Air Canada's denial and claim of chatbot's autonomy, tribunal ordered $602 refund.
Feb 18, 2024·LinkedIn
Data-driven enterprises should opt for fine-tuned language models (LLMs) customised to their needs, not commercial off-the-shelf solutions, to address data privacy, protection, and hallucination mitigation using Response Generation (RAG). LLM orchestration solution proposed includes query rephrasing, co-referencing, query type, item and attribution identification, response generation, and digression handling. Adoption of fine-tuned LLMs allows enterprises to unlock insights in a data-centric world.
Feb 17, 2024·Beckers Hospital Review
Healthcare leaders promote safe AI use, addressing fears of destructive outcomes. Providence builds internal generative AI for safety, tracking employee use. Dangers include increasing inequities, cyberattacks, worker replacement, and critical task automation. Medical associations oppose AI automation in healthcare. The greatest fear lies in biased, incomplete datasets causing harm. Safe AI usage responsibility lies with health system leaders. AI seen as care team member, needs human review. AI provides opportunity for healthcare to prove its technological worth.
Boston Children's expert teaches AI-physician interaction, hires Dinesh Rai, MD, to develop AI prompts, guide clinical cases via chatbot. Boston Children's, a key user of ChatGPT since 2022, launched internal ChatGPT platform. Over 1,000 employees accessed chatbot post-2023 rollout. Tool developed with OpenAI, Microsoft for HIPAA-compliance. Early questions involve documentation. Dr. Rai's clinical background aids tech understanding, communication with patients.
Healthcare executives see AI potential but lack governance. Only 16% have systemwide policies, with many creating oversight committees. AI benefits include improved efficiency, increased clinical decision visibility, and task automation. 73% plan AI adoption via EHR vendors for integration ease. However, attention and calibration required, per UPMC Enterprises' Jeffrey Jones. Most organizations using cross-functional teams for AI deployment, often led by CIOs and data officers. Trust in large companies for AI integration with HIPAA compliance, lesser faith in startups. Adoption focus post-deployment on clinician and team member education, proven benefits aid buy-in.
Feb 17, 2024·ConnectedMed
AI use in health systems lacks formal policies, with AI focusing on easing clinicians' documentation burden and automating functions. Survey shows interest in AI but concerns over data and privacy risks. Systems establish AI governance committees with only 16% having system-wide policy. CCM and KLAS Research surveyed health execs on AI use and risks. Generative AI seen beneficial in improving system efficiencies, enhancing decision visibility, and automating tasks, with 70% looking to integrate AI via EHR vendors.
Feb 16, 2024·EY
COVID-19 has spurred digital transformations in healthcare with majority executives seeing tech investments worthwhile despite high initial costs. EY US's Health Pulse Survey reveals adaptation towards digital health tech enhancing operational efficiency and reducing patient care costs. 90% report more time for provider needs post-digital administrative shift. AI is emerging as transformative with 60% investing and 96% seeing time and cost reductions. Yet paradoxically, 70% haven't seen ROI on digital health investments due to difficult tech cost-value tracking. Reskilling for new tech is being prioritized, with digital knowledge boosting provider credibility. Future value in digital health tech lies in modernization and connectivity for better data access.
Feb 16, 2024·AP News
Microsoft and OpenAI disrupted adversaries' AI technology misuse in cyber operations, mainly from Iran, North Korea, lesser from Russia, China. Detected AI techniques were early-stage, not unique, but public disclosure vital as enemies use large-language models to expand network breach ability, conduct influence operations. Large-language models escalate offensive hacking, propelled by ChatGPT—OpenAI's product. Liabilities from generative AI indicated by Microsoft include enhanced malicious social engineering, sophisticated deepfake production, threatening democracy. These adversaries were cited using AI for espionage, academic research, spear-phishing campaigns, social engineering, software troubleshooting, invisible network intrusions, sensitive and geopolitical information acquisition. Critics argue AI models' release was hasty since security was usually an afterthought. AI use and large language models could develop into potent cyber weapons.
Feb 16, 2024·CIO
IoT software security employs TLS certificates for trust and data encryption. Protecting machine identities is crucial, needs automation, auto-enrolment, and deprovisioning due to regulatory changes and rapid certificate turnover. Managing machine identities for secure data transit is essential in increasing AI projects. Cloud project security is foundational for AI projects success. Balance and discipline in AI projects execution and cost management is necessary for organizational benefits. Increase in budgets for IT teams likely for Windows 11 migration, hardware refresh cycles and data centre enhancements. Planning for AI hardware infrastructure and data handling important for seamless operation. By 2027, 40% organizations likely to have data storage management solutions.
Feb 15, 2024·The Verge
OpenAI, backed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella who previously added AI tools to Bing, is allegedly developing a web search product to compete with Google. It's uncertain if it will stand alone or be part of ChatGPT.
Feb 15, 2024·Y Combinator
Y Combinator shares its latest startup request list, discussing areas like robotics, AI models, defense technology, American manufacturing, climate tech, spatial computing, open source companies, enterprise resource planning software, and more. The company emphasizes their interest in funding startups focusing on these promising areas and emphasizes the importance of technology and innovation in shaping the future of various sectors including B2B applications, simulations, healthcare, enterprise software, and blockchain technologies.
Feb 15, 2024·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, faces competition from emerging AI firms like Abacus.AI. Abacus's Smaug-72B outperforms OpenAI's GPT-3.5 by 7%, leading the LLM leaderboard on Hugging Face. Openness in AI development promotes competition, as supported by Meta Platforms and Elon Musk's open-source AI bot, Grok. OpenAI's dominance is threatened in an increasingly open-source AI landscape.
Feb 15, 2024·Healthcare IT News
Children's Hospital Los Angeles partners with Vital, using ERAdvisor AI tool to enhance patient-family experience with clear, predictable processes. This platform, accessed via the MyVisit portal, provides real-time updates on child's status and care changes. Vital’s ERAdvisor, employs machine learning to simplify medical notes, offering patient education, surveys, service requests, and more. Such AI tools may also improve emergency care when integrated with clinical decision-making support.
Feb 14, 2024·Axios
OpenAI introduces memory feature to ChatGPT for personalizing responses and storing user preferences. Rolling out to limited GPT Plus customers, users can ask the bot to remember specific information. Memory contents are manageable by users, with safety steps against sensitive information storage. An incognito mode, optional memory feature usage, and feedback training options provided.
Feb 14, 2024·McKinsey & Company
2024 medtech predicted to stabilise growth above prepandemic average, focus on profitability and cash flow, continue pace in technological innovation, experience fluctuating growth across geographies, see gen AI adopters gain productivity benefits, maintain M&A deal volumes, and perceive minimal impact on industry growth by GLP-1 drugs. Insights inspired by dialogues with 200 leaders and McKinsey's decade-front medtech research.
Cohere for AI's open-source multilingual large language model (LLM) Aya supports instructions in over 100 languages, addressing language representation gaps. Developed by 3000 researchers, this project used a high-quality dataset of prompt and completion pairs. The model, twice as linguistically encompassing as current models and proficient even in underrepresented languages, also captures cultural subtleties. Aya aims to boost language research, preserve lesser-known languages and cultures, and inspire collaborations. Model evaluation and adoption challenges persist.
Feb 14, 2024·Meditech
Mile Bluff Medical Center employs MEDITECH's AI-powered Expanse powered by Google Health to improve workflow, efficiency for over 150 users across care network. Incorporated into Mile Bluff's Expanse EHR, the tool utilizes natural language processing to extract info from structured/unstructured data, providing clinicians with timely, comprehensive view of patients. It also minimizes time spent on patient data cleaning, resonates across all departments, enables quick search for discrete data, and proves effective for chart preparation and abstracting. This radical collaboration highlights AI's potential in patient care efficiency.