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FDA launches new Digital Health Advisory Committee

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced the creation of a new Digital Health Advisory Committee, which will gather "experts throughout the field who can help ensure our regulation of these exciting tools maintains an appropriate pace while working within parameters of safety and effectiveness standards,"...

Why this AI solution provider emphasises on-prem hosting amid growing cloud adoption

India-based clinical speech recognition solution provider Augnito has started offering an on-premises hosting service for its AI-powered solution to support health organisations' phased approach to digitalising clinical workflows. WHY IT MATTERS While many organisations are on the lookout for cloud-based computing services to facilitate their digital transformation, Augnito came out...

HITRUST launches new AI assurance initiative for healthcare

HITRUST this week announced the launch of its new HITRUST AI Assurance Program, designed to help healthcare organizations develop strategies for secure and sustainable use of artificial intelligence models. The standards, and certification organization says it's also developing forthcoming risk management guidance for AI systems. WHY IT MATTERSThe HITRUST AI...

Guthrie Clinic reduces nurse turnover from 25% to 13% with AI platform

Guthrie Clinic is a not-for-profit health system designed to offer patients in rural New York and Pennsylvania a full spectrum of health services incorporating primary care, behavioral health services, surgical services, inpatient care and more. And it has implemented artificial intelligence designed to reduce nurse turnover and overtime,...

NextGen introduces AI-enabled ambient listening that syncs with EHR

NextGen Healthcare this week announced the availability of an artificial intelligence-powered ambient listening technology that interprets patient-provider conversations in real-time, summarizes appointments and documents care plans.  WHY IT MATTERS The new tool, Ambient Assist, documents AI-generated subjective, objective, assessment and plan notes to save providers time, according to NextGen.  The cloud-based...

Dozee bets on India’s growing home healthcare market with new solution

RPM maker Dozee from India has unveiled a new AI-powered continuous patient monitoring system that can be used outside the ICU and at home. HOW IT WORKS Much like Dozee's existing connected bed platform, the new Dozee Pro Ex, according to a press release, can also continuously monitor patients' vitals and...

Changi General Hospital leverages AI to spot curable hypertension

The Changi General Hospital has made testing for curable forms of hypertension more accessible and quicker for Singaporeans by leveraging the latest analytical techniques. Its clinical laboratory with Japanese medical equipment manufacturer Shimadzu, Shimadzu-CGH Clinomics Centre (SC3), has recently started offering tests for identifying primary aldosteronism and salt-sensitive hypertension which are...

Mount Sinai partners with Chiba Institute on AI for cardiovascular research

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chiba Institute of Technology to use artificial intelligence to enhance clinical trials for cardiovascular disease, advance patient care and bring potential new treatments to heart disease patients more quickly. WHY IT MATTERS The affiliation...

Google debuts new Vertex AI Search capabilities for health providers

At HLTH 2023, Google announced it added new generative AI-powered capabilities to its Vertex AI platform for health and life sciences companies to search patient data, including clinical sources like FHIR data and clinical notes, which can be combined with its medical large language model Med-PaLM 2.  Vertex AI is...

Mayo Clinic to test new generative AI applications from Microsoft

Mayo Clinic and Microsoft both announced this week that Mayo will be among the health systems to first deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot, a generative AI platform. WHY IT MATTERSThe Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic will be an early participant in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program – offering its clinicians...