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Jan 8, 2024·LinkedIn

Amazon Health Services aims to simplify health management, offering programs for disease prevention and awareness. Partnering with Omada Health, more than 20 million members can now access programs for diabetes and high blood pressure.

Jan 8, 2024·Beckers Hospital Review

Stanford Health Care eyes AI for healthcare overhaul in 2024; aims for predictive, generative AI in clinical care, research, education. Michael Pfeffer, CIO, supports AI integration into IT systems, enhancing electronic health records, clinical trials, and medical education. Stanford also focuses on patient engagement via AI-enabled MyHealth portal and assists researchers with high-tech storage and compute needs. Pfeffer monitors AI regulatory requirements and integration of genomics in electronic health records. Lessons from Stanford's 2023 AI pilot include different utilizations and derived values by healthcare professionals.

Jan 8, 2024·Beckers Hospital Review

Amazon collaborates with Omada, a virtual healthcare provider, to launch Health Condition Programs and expand consumer access to chronic condition care. This targets diabetes, hypertension prevention and treatment, while encouraging enrollment in employer-sponsored or individual health plans. Amazon will guide eligible customers searching for related products to Omada's programs. This will expand Amazon Health's nationwide reach, following their recent healthcare expansions.

Jan 8, 2024·National CIO Review

Microsoft introduces AI powered Copilot key in Windows keyboards, first update since 1994, part of strategy to integrate AI across products. Copilot key serves as shortcut to Microsoft's AI Copilot service for tasks like image creation, email writing, text summarization. This signifies shift towards an intelligent computing future. Copilot key replaces menu key, launches (Windows) Copilot experience. Despite no boost in device sales with AI services so far, Microsoft expects the Copilot key could influence consumer behaviour, pressuring for upgrades.

Jan 8, 2024·The Verge

Apple's Vision Pro headset shipping February 2 in the US; pre-orders start January 19. $3,499 headset offers 256GB storage, includes Zeiss prescription lens options. Accessory bundle: Solo Knit Band, Dual Loop Band, light seal, cushions, cover, polishing cloth, battery, USB-C charger. Features 4K display per eye, AR/VR switch, M2 and R1 chips, controller-free interface. Integrates with familiar apps, allows spatial video viewing, access to 150 3D Apple TV titles. Runs on visionOS, compatible with most Apple device apps. High price may deter potential buyers.

Jan 6, 2024·TechCrunch

OpenAI's upcoming GPT Store provides platform for developers' compliant, public text-generating AI applications. Revenue-sharing scheme remains unclear. Expected to impact AI app creation and consultancy.

Jan 6, 2024·The Verge

Google developing "Bard Advanced", an improved, subscription-based version of Bard, powered by Google's new large language model, Gemini Ultra. Features include custom bot creation, enhanced prompt responses via AI, a "Gallery" to explore Bard's capabilities, and a new task system for image generation and custom background creation for shared Bard prompts. Availability and officialization of features remain unknown.

Jan 6, 2024·The Verge

Microsoft's "AI PC" year commences with a Copilot key change on new PCs and laptops for quick access to Windows Copilot experience. Replacing the menu key, the AI-driven Copilot key initiates the chatbot-like Windows Copilot in Windows 11, or Windows Search where the feature is unavailable. The Copilot key will feature on new Windows 11 PCs, including upcoming Surface devices, by spring. The innovation forms part of Microsoft's plan to incorporate more AI features in Windows alongside branding Microsoft Edge as the "AI browser."

Jan 6, 2024·Chief Healthcare Executive

Healthcare tech companies predict increased role for AI and digital tools in enhancing patient care and operational efficiency in 2024. Emphasis on technology’s role in reducing labor pressures and managing costs. AI disruption expected, with need for strong safeguards. E-prescribing and data analytics gain attention, with focus on tech contributing to patient-centric approach, cost management, health outcomes. AI’s value to increase in non-clinical processes, provider data management, and patient care. Consumer-focused shift toward price transparency in ePrescribing anticipated; AI driven advancements expected in clinical documentation and medical billing. CEOs advised to view technology as strategic partner for future strategy development.

Jan 3, 2024·themessenger.com

SpaceX launching first six Starlink satellites for direct-to-cell internet service, if not on Jan. 2 possibly Jan.3. Launch livestream 15mins before lift off on platform X. Launch counts 21 satellites total, exceeding 5000 in orbit. Tech allowing space-based internet on smartphones, boosts Starlink profitability whilst continuing Mars human mission plan.

Jan 3, 2024·DroneLife

Drone delivery positively impacts healthcare and beyond, with a notable effect on remote regions, says a Science Robotics study. Zipline's blood delivery drone resulted in 51% drop in maternal deaths due to postpartum hemorrhage and 67% reduction in blood waste in Rwanda annually, causing a national delivery system overhaul with 75% of external Kigali deliveries now drone-executed. The service extended to food and vaccine delivery, saving estimated 727 lives in Ghana alone (2019–2021). Despite needing regulatory, logistical, and technical advancements, drone delivery holds potential for resonating global healthcare improvements and reducing carbon emissions.

Jan 3, 2024·Healthcare Brew

Future hospital care involves continuous patient monitoring through technology, enabling personalized experiences. Hospitals to become community hubs, promoting healthcare with increased visitor amenities. Evolution reflects technological advances, staffing issues and greater patient independence.

Jan 1, 2024·LinkedIn

Brian Solis discusses AI progression; Generative AI passingly acknowledged by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman who envisions interactive AI's future catering tasks via autonomous bot collaboration. AI evolves; from classification and training, generative AI creating new data, to interactive AI facilitating task execution via voice-activated interfaces, and AI prompting towards specific goals. Suleyman's work, speculated collaborative efforts between Jony Ive and Sam Altman included, anticipates future AI waves and applications.

Dec 30, 2023·LinkedIn

Healthcare organizations face margin pressures. Leveraging contracts, consolidating SKUs, buying cheaper supplies necessary yet insufficient. Business model redesign, scalable reinvestment, efficiency innovation, and deploying leadership skills to manage portfolio are highly recommended. Successful implementation bolsters margins, improves critical outcomes.

Dec 28, 2023·VentureBeat

2024 AI predictions from top venture capitalists (VCs) include the rise and fall of generative AI startups, the convergence of text, image, and audio data, the democratization of AI via open-source models, the persistence of a GPU shortage, and major developments from tech giants like Apple and Google. AI in healthcare, climate, and industry could bring significant transformations. Some VCs predict the continuation of the GPU shortage, forcing startups to create more efficient models or seek alternatives, while others foresee tech leaders like Google and Apple making vast inroads. They anticipate the persistent growth of AI, with 2024 being a landmark year.

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·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 7, 2023·Beckers Hospital Review

Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy in 2022, pricing medications with manufacturing fee, 15% markup, shipping and handling. Subsequently, Express Scripts and CVS adopt similar approaches. U.S. drug prices are averagely 2.5 times higher than in 32 countries, with complex pricing methods. Pharmacies negotiate prices with distributors and pricing models often include markup and handling fees. With rising drug costs, many health system pharmacy leaders fear cutting services. Cuban, Express Scripts, CVS aim for more transparent pricing, while Cigna Group's Express Scripts' ClearNetwork, CVS's CostVantage and Caremark's TrueCost, UnitedHealth Group's Optum Rx, and Elevance Health plan to offer cost-based services for drugs, aiming for price transparency.

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.