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Sep 24, 2023·Becker's Hospital Review
Health system execs balance growth, finances, workforce, and operations. Scripps Health and Stanford Medicine adopt strategic growth approaches. Scripps' growth includes collaborations, exploration of acquisitions, and partnerships for non-core patient services. It plans exit from unsustainable Medicare Advantage full-risk agreements. Stanford Medicine targets growth in advancing scientific knowledge, training biomedical leaders, and promoting health equity. It focuses on resources and support for its community, clinician wellness, and the thoughtful application of AI in patient care.
Sep 24, 2023·healthsystemcio.com
Social determinants of health (SDOH) continue to challenge US healthcare, despite spending $4.3tn annually. Life expectancies in some states are lower than poverty-stricken countries. Addressing these determinants requires policy changes, while clinicians can directly intervene, tapping into social resources. Direct physician input can help patients access services like housing and disability income. Digital solutions for early detection of diseases like cancer and cardiac disorders can also contribute to improving health outcomes.
Sep 24, 2023·Reuters
Intel's December chip enables AI chatbots on laptops without cloud data centers. The "Meteor Lake" chip offers businesses and consumers the ability to test generative AI technologies, ensuring data security. Demonstrations showed song generation and conversational AI assistant without internet connection. Intel expects market gains in AI work outside data centers.
Sep 24, 2023·JMIR
OpenAI's large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, reached 100 million users in two months, outpacing TikTok and Instagram. These LLMs have various applications in industries such as healthcare, assisting in patient diagnosis and suggesting treatment plans. However, LLMs' implications on job roles and patient outcomes have drawn scrutiny. The widespread accessibility of AI tools allows physicians to experience AI-based technologies first-hand. However, limited access and lagging adoption rates still present barriers. Generative AI is improving accessibility, with many AI tools now available to the average medical professional. The impact of generative AI includes the democratization of AI technology, cost-effectiveness, improved data analysis, enhanced communication, and continuous learning. However, this also raises questions regarding patient privacy, legal responsibilities, and copyright ownership. Policymakers must now address these challenges for effective implementation.
Sep 24, 2023·Cedars-Sinai Newsroom
Cedars-Sinai's frontline caregivers and staff conduct 'Idea-Thons' to explore and develop AI healthcare tools.
Sep 24, 2023·MedCity News
Healthcare tech firm Meditech collaborates with Google Cloud, enhancing software with generative AI, largely aimed at relieving clinicians' burnout. Meditech uses Google's large language models (LLMs) to improve search, summarization, and data harmonization within its EHR, allowing quicker access to comprehensive patient data for decisive treatments. The company also experiments with Google's Med-PaLM 2 to enhance EHR’s capabilities. Another focus area involves auto-generation of clinical documents such as discharge summaries using Google’s LLMs, thereby lessening the time-consuming documentation process for clinicians.
Sep 24, 2023·Becker's Healthcare
2023 Epic Systems integrates Microsoft's AI tools, rolls out online app gallery, integrates two-way patient texting, trains workers, expands Microsoft partnership, partners with 10 virtual care companies, creates collaboration program, partners with Nuance for GPT-4 documentation, adds 83 hospitals, gets Microsoft and health system partnerships for generative AI, secures Northwell Health customer, approves Trusted Exchange Framework joining, claims top health software suite for 13 years.
Sep 24, 2023·LinkedIn
Bill Russell discusses generative AI's reliability in healthcare. Using OpenAI's function calling in webapp: gptexperiments.patient.dev, he tested triage nurse blurbs against top five likely conditions. Despite the same input, the AI resulted in varying answers. A 98% majority of diagnoses related to gallbladder disease. The Jaccard similarity of different runs was 3.41%, indicating a moderate variation in generated diagnoses. Russell sees function calling's potential for healthcare apps but worries about variation, though believes imperfect results can still be useful. Experiment repeated with zero temperature showed less variation.
Sep 24, 2023·Digital Health
Healthcare benefits from digital integration; enhanced care, improved outcomes, operational efficiency, stakeholder satisfaction. Ten suggested actions: adopt consumer-oriented attitude, enable mobile health solutions, invest in AI and Machine Learning, leverage data analytics, stay agile and open to innovation, embrace telemedicine, prioritize data security, foster collaboration and interconnectivity, engage in continuous training, and promote patient education. Digital health advancement may be challenging but rewarding with improved patient outcomes and operational excellence.
Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner unveiled plans to address healthcare industry issues like provider burnout and staffing shortages at the annual Users Group Meeting. Strategy includes software training, integrating millions more patient records for data systems, using generative AI to minimize provider workload. Initiatives comprise extended workforce training, new training program Lyceum for medical students, extended patient databases for easy research and treatment information sharing under Look-Alikes initiative and generative AI integration in collaboration with Microsoft for saving time.
Sep 24, 2023·Healthcare Dive
Julie Yoo, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, advocates for companies at the healthcare-finance intersection. She joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2019 and has identified key investment opportunities in healthcare fintech. Automation of administrative tasks and rethinking payment models are significant opportunities for fintech startups in healthcare. Healthcare's underserved markets also present potential for disruption. Yoo believes healthcare is at a fintech adoption tipping point with advancements in value-based care. The article outlines challenges, including enterprise inertia and large companies' preference to develop solutions in-house. Despite recent decline in digital health funding, Yoo sees healthy market conditions and predicts booming investment opportunities in the next few years.
Sep 24, 2023·Healthcare IT News
AI impacts cybersecurity both beneficially and detrimentally, aiding attackers but also defenders in cybersecurity. Cybercriminals leverage AI for sophisticated attacks, while cybersecurity teams use it for defense. AI implications for cybersecurity include facilitating denial of service attacks, brute force attacks, and model poisoning. The technology can also lead to data privacy concerns through "prompt engineering" attacks on public tools like ChatGPT. In contrast, AI benefits cybersecurity by aiding threat identification, detecting malicious code, and predicting phishing attacks. However, generative AI like ChatGPT introduces risks such as coding for nefarious purposes and privacy invasion. Despite potential negatives, AI's positive impact on healthcare, with proper safeguards, outweighs the negatives.
Challenges such as COVID-19, staffing shortages, inflation hit healthcare systems heavily, 50% US hospitals reported negative margins in 2022. C-suite leaders optimistic due to cost-saving potential of generative AI and automation. Hospital leaders plan AI-Powered initiatives for enhanced workflows, data management, predictive analytics, decision support, etc., in future years. Survey shows excitement among 75% leaders about technological advancements but only 6% healthcare systems have established generative AI strategy. Report lists numerous potential applications for AI but warns against resource and cost constraints, expertise lack, and regulatory, legal considerations. Bain company suggests guiding principles to hospital execs including piloting low-risk applications, deciding on investment methods, funneling cost savings in bigger bets and ensuring AI strategy aligns with overarching company goals.
200 nurses to march in LA against AI in healthcare on Aug 29, organized by California Nurses Association and National Nurses United, stressing AI can't replace hands-on care or solve staffing issues. March mirrors Hollywood strikes against AI-produced scripts, with 'Flip the script on AI' signs.
Sep 24, 2023·KFF Health News
Elizabeth Amirault's pain medication denied due to high Narx Score, an AI tool tracking medication use to combat opioid epidemic. Bamboo Health's NarxCare platform generates overdose risk using a secret formula, raising bias and accuracy concerns. Chronic pain patients argue unexplainable cut-off from needed drugs and adverse impacts. Some doctors feel their practice unfairly threatened due to flawed system flags. Usage of such systems underscored for balanced intent and application.
Sep 24, 2023·Tech Republic
Google Cloud Next 2023 disclosed AI-powered services including new Cloud TPU, A4 virtual machines with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Vertex AI increase capacity, supports more languages. Vertex AI Search, Vertex AI Conversation available. Codey foundation model upgrades for efficient code generation. Vertex's text-to-image model style tuning, Llama 2 and Claude 2 join Vertex AI's model library. BigQuery Studio, AlloyDB upgrades preview ready. A3 virtual machines running on NVIDIA H100 GPU with GPU-to-GPU data transfers for AI training disclosed. Cloud TPU v5e, optimized for generative AI inferencing, introduced. Google Kubernetes Engine Enterprise edition for AI workloads launches in September.
Citi report predicts AI will streamline clinician tasks in next 5-10 years, notably for automating diagnoses, answering patient queries. AI tools, equipped with automatic speech recognition, will be used adjunctively to influence decision-making but won't replace doctors. Market yet to see launch of diagnostic generative AI tools; testing ongoing. Examples include Google's Med-PaLM 2. Other healthcare professionals will also benefit from generative AI tools. Large language models provide consumers chatbot-style tools for medical queries. Development of accurate, easy-use tools to take years.
Sep 24, 2023·Forbes
Google extends large language model access to healthcare customers; enables information-handoff optimization. HCA Healthcare applies Google's Vertex AI in nurse shift handoff. Google's healthcare-specific model, Med-PaLM 2, expands healthcare customer accessibility. HCA among early access customers using generative AI for patient care information transfer. Competitors Amazon and Microsoft also leveraging AI for healthcare sector.
Sep 24, 2023·Business Wire
HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud partner to use AI technology to enhance medical workflows, particularly clinical documentation, to allow health professionals to focus more on patient care while ensuring data privacy and security. This collaboration is part of HCA's stratagem to advance its digital shift. The new arrangement enables ER physicians in certain HCA hospitals to use Google’s AI to document key medical data swiftly during patient interactions via an Augmedix app. Implementation will be extended to more hospitals, with reported strong satisfaction from the pilot program. The AI technology is also utilized to develop a tool that automates patient handoff reports between nurses for consistency and patient safety. Additionally, HCA's exploring Google’s Med-PaLM 2 LLM to assist caregivers, and Google Cloud's data sovereignty approach aids clients in maintaining control of their data.
Sep 24, 2023·HealthCare DIVE
Google's expanding Med-Palm 2, an AI model trained on medical info, to more healthcare/life sciences Google Cloud customers. HCA Healthcare and Mayo Clinic among testers since April. Med-Palm 2, improved previous model accuracy by 19%, not replacing but aiding healthcare workers. Raises concerns regarding errors, complex queries, standards, regulation. HCA uses it for documentation, planning to expand use as AI improves. Meditech using Google's AI for EHR search/summarization. Concerns include ethical AI use, quality, consent, privacy. Google ensures Med-Palm 2 training doesn't involve patient data, customers control their data. Tech gradually introduced in clinical practice to build comfort before controversial areas.