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Dec 26, 2023·Boing Boing

Dropbox testing AI tools with OpenAI, granting document access. Opt-out option via settings under "Third-Party AI". Dropbox active use needed for engagement with AI features. User privacy concerns rising with increased consumer-facing AI model use. Unsharing necessary to prevent non-opt-out users from opting shared documents back in. If against surveillance, advised not to store data on other's computers.

Dec 22, 2023·Ehrconcepts

AI in EHRs improves efficiency, personalization, patient-centered care in 2024. Key AI integrations include: chatbots streamlining administrative tasks, NLP automating clinical-note creation, AI analyzing data for improved clinical decisions and personalized treatments, AI enhancing patient engagement, and AI optimizing revenue management. AI also facilitates innovation and research in healthcare. Challenges: data privacy and security, interoperability, and algorithmic bias.

Dec 22, 2023·Becker's Hospital Review

New York-based NewYork-Presbyterian has 120 AI initiatives to lessen disease burden in clinical/nonclinical areas. They're developing AI diagnoses, ensuring ethical roll-out, and focusing on reducing disease with AI technology. Goals include increasing AI use, leveraging data and expertise, and employing AI to revolutionize disease diagnosis and treatment.

Dec 21, 2023·Google Cloud

Google Cloud's CTO highlights three pillars for gen AI adoption in 2024: sustainable costs, broad accessibility, AI trust/security. Gen AI's coupling AI capabilities with business results, the Gemini model advancing language-interaction, and comprehending various data types simultaneously. Scaling costs, energy usage, optimisation for data centres, and regulatory compliance are significant factors. Gen AI ubiquity aims to individualise software to each business, employee, and customer needs. Trust/security is fundamental, using gen AI tools for threat detection and managing data access across multi-location systems.

Dec 21, 2023·briansolis.com

Brian Solis and design studio JESS3 have released the GenAI Prism v1.0 infographic, a representation of the generative AI universe. Created in collaboration with AI expert Conor Grennan, the infographic organizes generative AI companies, demonstrating the augmentation of human creativity and productivity. GenAI Prism serves as a reference guide, promoting intentional collaboration with AI for thoughtful, effective outcomes. It offers a workflow to utilize generative AI and augment human ingenuity, creating results beyond current capabilities. It enhances, accelerates, and boosts human work, allowing new forms of creation.

Dec 21, 2023·Healthcare IT News

Generative AI growth in healthcare expected in 2024 but will face increased regulation. 2023's hype led few health systems to implement definitive generative AI strategies. GSR Ventures' Dr. Justin Norden predicts more providers realizing benefits from genAI in administrative tasks. However, needed for regulatory guidelines to protect patient safety and provider liability, with President Biden's October executive order hinting at 2024 AI regulation. Norden anticipates broader AI regulation, testing for bias, accuracy, and safety. Health systems potentially self-regulating AI algorithms in regulatory uncertainty. Increased financial pressures could force health tech vendor consolidation.

Dec 21, 2023·VentureBeat

Apple innovates in AI with 3D avatars, efficient language models; HUGS creates avatars from monocular videos, outperforming Vid2Avatar, NeuMan; windowing and row-column bundling speed prop up large language model (LLM) inference. New techniques may integrate into Apple products, enabling complex AI services. Future: AI-infused service needs, photorealistic avatars, powerful AI assistants on portable devices.

Dec 17, 2023·Medical Futurist

Medical trends for 2024 include generative AI in healthcare, multimodal AI, at-home blood tests, a rise in digital therapeutics, photoplethysmography (PPG) for blood pressure, and AI avatars. Generative AI will assist patients, while multimodal AI hubs will process multiple types of data. At-home blood testing is developing alongside do-it-yourself blood draws and blood-drawing robots, making diagnostic tools more accessible. Digital therapeutics deliver health solutions via software. PPG will enable real-time blood pressure readings, and AI avatars will aid education.

Dec 17, 2023·Harvard Business Review

Microsoft's Chief Scientist, Jaime Teevan, highlights the importance of prompt engineering and natural language conversations in optimising work with generalised AI (GenAI). Recent AI advances promise significant productivity improvements. Teevan's work involves researching and managing post-Covid work practices, microproductivity, and personalised search algorithms.

Dec 15, 2023·Whitehouse.gov

Biden administration champions responsible AI use in healthcare aiming to improve health outcomes, while ensuring user safety and privacy. Leading healthcare providers and payers announced commitment to fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe AI use. AI prompts healthcare improvements such as advanced care access, outcome coordination, burnout reduction. However, its misuse risks biased diagnoses, privacy breaches. Mitigating risks could enable beneficial transformation in health delivery, could reduce healthcare costs. AI capabilities include analyzing billions of medical images efficiently, streamlining drug development, and easing administrative work. Private sector's commitment crucial to progress sustainable AI.

Dec 14, 2023·LinkedIn

Aaron Neinstein, CMO at Notable, moderated AI panel at Annual Meeting of Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties. Panelists shared lessons: begin with problem, set north star goals for AI, use AI for leveraging EHR unstructured data, nurture AI-literate workforce, assess organizational risk tolerance, use AI for democratizing healthcare information access, create AI-related learning, foster operations-IT partnership, and choose right vendor. Majority shown to prefer AI-using institutions.

Dec 14, 2023·LinkedIn

Human discovery and tools evolved healthcare, humanity remained constant. Pediatric ICU displays healing power; healthcare technology mainly people, process over technology. Tools of health, like penicillin, advanced care delivery. AI's introduction, despite seeming sudden, development spans decades. AI adoption in healthcare presents challenges, needs human discernment. Back-office systems and healthcare processes increasingly utilizing AI. CommonSpirit employs 60 AI-based systems. Healthcare can use AI for tasks like call automation. AI also aids employees and patients in admin tasks and appointments scheduling. AI clinical use necessitates absence of algorithmic bias. AI tools reducing documentation burden for clinicians; instrumental in identifying sepsis and stroke. Entire patient care entrusted solely to AI remains a future goal; clinicians must retain final decision power. AI sits between clinician and patient; humanity encompasses healthcare.

Dec 14, 2023·Google Cloud Blog

AI in healthcare advanced with Google's Med-PaLM, MedLM models. MedLM, designed for healthcare uses, available for US Google Cloud customers. Two models under MedLM cater to different healthcare needs. In future, Gemini-based models to be integrated. HCA Healthcare, BenchSci, Accenture, and Deloitte benefitted from MedLM. HCA Healthcare improved medical documentation with Augmedix. BenchSci expedited drug development. Accenture enhanced healthcare experience, outcomes. Deloitte improved provider search. Google emphasizes safe, responsible AI use in healthcare.

Dec 14, 2023·Politico

AI regulations in healthcare coming in 2024. Increased transparency required in clinical settings for fair, appropriate, safe and effective AI use. Rule also includes software developers providing information on AI technology mechanisms and development details. 2024 expected to be a significant year for AI in healthcare according to the report from KLAS Research.

Dec 14, 2023·Healthcare Dive

Google unveiled MedLM, a suite of generatively-trained AI models for healthcare. Tuned on broad datasets, MedLM is designed for tasks like medical documentation, pre-clinical drug development research and improving chatbot experiences for health plan members. Available to U.S. Google Cloud users via Vertex AI, Google intends to expand the range. MedLM builds on the success of Google's Med-PaLM 2 large language model for medical information. Competition in the healthcare generative AI sector includes Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon. A Klas Research survey indicates a growing interest among healthcare executives in AI adoption.

Dec 10, 2023·BBC

UK's Competition and Markets Authority probes Microsoft-OpenAI partnership for potential merger; investigates impact on AI market. Recent turmoil at OpenAI, heightened by sudden firing of CEO Sam Altman, raises questions about competition and AI development. Microsoft, OpenAI's biggest investor, maintains partnership has fostered AI innovation and competition. Investigations could result in probe if potential restrictions to UK competition are discovered.

Dec 10, 2023·Fox Business

AI deployed at Mayo Clinic to detect heart diseases and guide treatments, highlighting benefits in screening sudden death predisposing heart conditions. Application of intelligence extends to Apple Watches and digital stethoscopes. Technological advancement expected to cope with forecasted cardiologist shortage and improve accuracy and speed of diagnosis. Respective devices await FDA approval for nationwide use.

Dec 10, 2023·MobiHealthNews

Google-DeepMind-developed LLM enhances accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) and clinicians' diagnostic reasoning. LLM builds on Med-PaLM 2 technology, answers medical questions, fine-tuned with medical data enhances performance. Study: 20 clinicians evaluated 302 challenging cases, LLM aided approach delivered 59.1% accuracy vs 33.6% unassisted. Researchers suggest LLM may improve diagnostic accuracy, merits further real-world evaluation. Study limitations acknowledged.

Dec 7, 2023·StarBridge Advisors

Healthcare and IT present challenges and opportunities; focus on people, process, technology. Current global issues impact local activities; workforce challenges emphasize people focus. Healthcare professionals need mercy, compassion, listening skills; should treat others kindly. For 2024, kindness and compassion are essential. Collaboration and attention to diversity, equality, inclusion (DEI) expand. IT security critical; evolve IT, embrace digital services, consider revenue enhancement/cost containment. Remain open to new partnerships, challenge status quo, cautiously engage AI, Machine Learning. Address health literacy, EHR issues; commit to life-work balance assessment. Create better 2024.

Dec 7, 2023·Google Blog

Google, Alphabet and DeepMind CEOs introduce Gemini, the largest, most capable AI model thus far. It enables significant advancements in scientific discovery, human progress and improves lives greatly. Gemini 1.0 is optimised for different sizes for use across products and services like Search, Ads, Chrome and Duet AI. The model recognises text, images, audio and more simultaneously, excelling at explaining complex reasoning in subjects like maths and physics. Gemini is being released in Google products like Bard and Pixel 8 Pro and will soon be accessible to developers and enterprise customers for their advantage. The development and deployment of Gemini strictly adhere to robust safety policies across products and Google's AI principles.