Generative AI is revolutionizing healthcare and life sciences, making vital data-driven advancements. Examples include speeding up cancer drug design and accelerating research with large language models. Beyond traditional machine learning and analytics, generative AI absorbs vast data, aids clinicians and researchers, and can drive our health at personal and communal levels. Applications include improving clinical documentation, enabling early disease diagnosis, personalizing treatment, assisting drug research, accelerating clinical trials, and fostering innovation. The challenges lie in data protection, data hygiene, cost maintenance, and customization of AI applications. Generative AI's impact will eventually be felt at the human level as bodies and lives benefit from the enabled advances.

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Healthcare firms setting AI strategy review committee need careful planning, incorporating skeptics for comprehensive view of tech's use. HealthLeaders AI NOW panel suggests composition: 7-12 members from CFO's team, legal and compliance, medical ethicist, behavioral science, and clinicians. Advise occasional contrarian to challenge group think and promote innovative ideas. Open communication and transparency essential among team. Rapid AI growth requires vigilant monitoring to prevent misuse, potential errors, and ensure effective tech application. Good governance means evaluating vendor's AI tool effectiveness and avoiding duplicate solutions. Health systems should anticipate tech mistakes, apply guiding principles, and engage all affected parties when errors occur, for system improvement. Advocate balanced approach to adopting AI, eyeing its potential in healthcare improvement and life-saving.

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UCI Health is set to acquire four-hospital Pacific Coast Network from Tenet Healthcare for $975 million, pending regulatory approval. The acquisition will incorporate medical centers in Lakewood, Los Alamitos, Fountain Valley, and Placentia, expanding UCI Health's portfolio to offer advanced care and clinical trials.

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Lurie Children's Hospital experiencing outages due to unconfirmed cyberattack, frustrating parents and causing appointment cancellations. Previous data breach in Spring 2023 affected 2000 patients. Recovery could be lengthy despite backup data. No response from FBI Chicago.

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