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Feb 12, 2024·HealthLeadersMedia

Cedars-Sinai creates XAIA, an AI-enhanced VR app for mental health that interfaces with Apple Vision Pro headset. The app provides immersive therapy through a digital avatar, offering treatment and resources. AI avatar guides CBT treatments and should augment, not replace therapists. Developed by Cedars-Sinai's Spiegel and Liran, XAIA takes users into spatial environments for guided treatments. Initial evidence suggests VR and AI therapy presents potential for automated mental health support.

Feb 12, 2024·Hospital Management

AI data security company Tausight partners with CrowdStrike, improving healthcare cybersecurity. Collaboration provides real-time risk intelligence, controlling ePHI, integrating Tausight’s PHI Security Intelligence platform with CrowdStrike’s Falcon LogScale. Enhances visibility, defense for healthcare organizations, addressing HIPAA non-compliance risks. AI-driven Falcon XDR platform incorporates Tausight’s healthcare data insights, allowing risk assessment across environments. Centralizing, storing Tausight supply chain insights in Falcon LogScale enables monitoring of data movement internally and externally, mitigating ransomware, data extortion risks.

Feb 12, 2024·Foundry

2024 State of the CIO Study by Foundry highlights CIO role's evolution, with focus shifting towards strategic tasks, security management, IT operations improvement and business process redesign. Increasing collaboration with LOB on AI applications is observed. Anticipated tech budget growth is expected to shift ownership of out-of-IT budgets to IT. The increase in security threats redirects focus from innovative tasks, forcing tech budgets to rise. CIOs anticipate more involvement in AI due to automation and efficiency gains. The research provides industry, size, region-specific insights, based on responses from 875 IT heads and 251 LOB respondents globally.

Feb 12, 2024·MedTech

Immersive tech experts see potential in the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset for use in healthcare, particularly in surgical training. Its eye-tracking and gesture-based controls show promise, with perceived limitations in operating suites possibly surmountable with modifications. The device could be useful in patient education, facilitating communication between healthcare providers and patients, and optimising hospital tasks. Furthermore, the ability of the Vision Pro to function without a connected computer could lower costs. However, its hefty price could discourage those already using cheaper VR headsets. The Vision Pro's rapid adoption will likely be in areas where imaging and haptics truly matter.

Feb 12, 2024·SC Magazine

Tax season sees rise in W-2 fraud scams, exploiting finance departments' heightened stress and with attacks increasing by over 130%. Scammers pose as executives, requesting W-2s from finance and HR departments using spoofed emails and social engineering. If successful, the hacker sells stolen W-2s or uses for identity theft. Spear-phishing, one form of these attacks, resulted in $2.7 billion losses last year. To protect against these attacks, organizations should refrain from publishing private info online, check for email spoofing, use alternative means to confirm requests' authenticity, adopt email authentication protocols, implement multi-factor authentication, and fortify email security with advanced tools like NLP.

Feb 10, 2024·Fortune

AI investment gives businesses unique value generation opportunities. Papa John's uses AI in fraud detection and delivery prediction; they're testing AI-enabled robotics and voice automation in customer service. Canva has integrated AI in creating text-to-image and image generating tools and perceives AI as a creative partner. Cushman & Wakefield employs AI in commercial real estate transactions and created an AI task force to ensure its responsible deployment. Morningstar uses AI to automate tasks and collect data; they launched an AI chatbot that summarizes investment insights. ServiceNow adopted an "AI-first" approach, deployed a dozen generative-AI use cases, and encourages AI investment. Snowflake is testing Document AI to help customers with their contracts, considering it a productivity tool. Businesses prioritize AI applications with clear value and defined ROI.

Feb 10, 2024·LinkedIn

Dave Chase from Health Rosetta promotes a Super Bowl ad demanding healthcare price transparency. Famous musicians rally against healthcare debt, now the main bankruptcy cause. Commenters defend insurance and hospital practices, call for other healthcare sectors' transparency, and acknowledge the need for patients' financial protection. Chase mentions an event and another lawsuit, advocating efficient, patient-centric health plans. He criticizes systems treating patients as mere billing vessels and recommends customizing healthcare approaches. He lauds companies improving their benefits, and acknowledges teams that contribute to successful health plans. The posts initiate discussions about ERISA fiduciary risks and opportunities to reduce them.

Feb 10, 2024·About Amazon

Amazon collaborates with U.S. AI Safety Institute, created by National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), to advance safe, secure AI. Amazon committed to develop and use AI systems responsibly, supports risk-based regulatory frameworks and guards against continued innovation. Amazon contributes $5 million to Institute for trustworthy AI development and responsible use methodologies, domain specific risk focused pre-deployment testing. Amazon seeks to improve generative AI safety, investing in future of responsible AI, and inform international standards.

Feb 10, 2024·LinkedIn

Apple Music pays NFL $50M yearly for Super Bowl halftime show sponsorship. Despite this, performers, such as Usher, don't receive payment. They instead leverage exposure to gain followers and increase sales. Famous artists like Prince, Michael Jackson, and Beyonce have performed for free. Artists receive a $15M budget for production costs involving workers, design, security, and marketing. Some artists ended up spending their own money on the performance, such as The Weeknd's $7M. Despite the costs, Super Bowl gives artist vast exposure. Usher plans to use the event to promote his new album "Coming Home" and his upcoming tour.

Feb 10, 2024·Tom's Hardware

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to GPU and AI fields. The high-demand Nvidia GPUs are essential for AI.

Feb 9, 2024·IDC

IDC predicts AI PC shipments to grow from 50 million units in 2024 to 167 million in 2027, making up nearly 60% of all PC shipments globally. Enhanced performance, lower costs, privacy and security drive interest in AI PCs. PC silicon vendors have introduced AI-specific silicon (NPUs) to run AI tasks efficiently. IDC identifies three NPU-enabled AI PCs; hardware-enabled AI PCs, next-generation AI PCs, and advanced AI PCs. IDC expects Next-generation AI PCs to dominate the market by 2027.

Feb 9, 2024·Healthcare Finance News

Amazon is axing over 100 jobs in One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, aiming to cut operating losses and save up to $100 million. The eliminated roles are a part of reorganizing resources and, despite cuts, Amazon plans to continue recruiting providers, enhancing teams, and investing in technologies for high-quality, accessible care. Amazon acquired One Medical, a membership-based primary care organization, in 2022, marking another non-traditional company making inroads into the primary care market. This series of job cuts extends to other Amazon business units like Audible, Prime Video, Twitch, and Buy with Prime divisions.

Feb 9, 2024·LinkedIn

Medical Futurist team member reviews Apple Watch Series 9, praises its health features, user experience, Siri integration and seamless phone interaction. Noted cons include inaccessibility without iPhone, frequent charging and cost. Compared to alternatives like Garmin Forerunner and Withings watch, Apple offers balanced functionality, versatility and convenience. While not perfect or specialty-focused, it suits users prioritizing integrated tech ecosystem and diverse features.

Feb 9, 2024·TechCrunch

Google retires Bard AI, rebrands as Gemini with new Gemini Ultra model. Ultra available through $20 Google One tier, includes 2TB storage, access in Google Workspace apps, replacement for Google Assistant. Gemini Advanced available in 150+ countries in English, Japanese and Korean next. Gemini Ultra 1.0 excels in text, image, audio, video benchmarks. Gemini Advanced, part of Google One AI Premium plan, offers more advanced Gemini model.

Feb 8, 2024·Gizmodo

Google has released its next-generation AI model, Gemini, integrating it into Google Assistant, launching a Gemini mobile app, and offering a premium AI subscription. Google renamed its chatbot from Bard to Gemini, making it available for voice interaction. Gemini Ultra, the company's most powerful AI, costs $19.99/month and outperforms human experts on MMLU, a standardized test covering multiple subjects. The Gemini rollout gives Google users a taste of the AI-centric future of computing.

Feb 8, 2024·Chief Healthcare Executive

Nurse burnout, increasing due to overwork, understaffing, and COVID-19 strain, results in debilitating mental health conditions and suicides. Nurse dissatisfaction prompts strikes for improved conditions and reimbursement. Some hospitals address nursing stress with contractual improvements and “virtual nursing” alternatives. High nurse attrition rates advocate a need for industry reform.

Feb 8, 2024·BoardMember

Charlie Munger's investment approach focuses on preparation, discipline, patience, and objectivity, characterized by infrequent purchasing and prolonged holding of stocks. Munger utilized a stringent evaluation process, selecting companies with easy-to-understand, dominant franchises, then applying various mental models to assess potential investments. He emphasized consideration of all relevant aspects, both internal and external to a company and cast a critical eye on financial reports. Munger's approach prioritizes thorough due diligence with varied factors and potential risk sources. He advocated for a traditional checklist methodology for final investment decisions, noting the importance of understanding risks, maintaining independence and preparation, accepting intellectual humility, and demonstrating analytic rigor, among other factors.

Feb 8, 2024·Forbes

AI is transforming private equity by enhancing data analysis, deal sourcing, risk assessment, due diligence, and portfolio optimization. Major firms like KKR & Co. and Blackstone use AI to analyze market trends and make more informed decisions. Yet, AI integration poses challenges around data privacy, ethical use, and need for regulatory frameworks. Future vision includes AI identifying potential investments and predicting global economic shifts. AI integration is a leap into a future of unparalleled potential and requires embracing innovation, efficiency and growth.

Feb 8, 2024·Beckers Hospital Review

U.S. healthcare faces challenges in 2024 from physician shortages, massive payers, efficiency of governmental payers, and technology limitations. Value-based care is unresolved, Medicare Advantage dominates Medicare population, severe mental health crisis, private equity's influence in healthcare, lack of preventive health, critical diabetes/obesity drug impact, and hospital margin improvement but long-term financial problem.

Feb 8, 2024·Star Bridge Advisors

Regular audits essential for business success; identify potential risks, ensure compliance, boost performance, optimize resources, and foster continuous improvement and stakeholder confidence. Objectivity, mutual respect, and open dialogue vital. Audit results used for informed decision-making and trust-building. Not compulsory to implement every recommendation; adaptations made based on enterprise's risk level.