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AHA advocates for ‘sector-specific’ approach to AI

Photo: Laurence Dutton/Getty Images The American Hospital Association has said it supports a careful review of artificial intelligence regulations in healthcare, but favors a "sector-specific" approach such as has been applied to health-focused software applications. In a letter to Dr. Bill Cassidy of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor...

How AI is already evolving, and enabling diverse healthcare improvements

Hospitals and health systems are using artificial intelligence to advance patient selection for clinical trials, avoid healthcare supply chain disruptions, uncover early-stage disease, decrease patient wait times – and those are just a few of the myriad AI use cases already in action, according to a virtual congressional...

Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service is integrated into Mercy’s offerings

Tech giant Microsoft announced a long-term partnership with multistate healthcare system Mercy, which will utilize its Azure OpenAI Service to provide generative AI-assisted communication resources to patients and Mercy employees.  Microsoft's generative AI will be used to help patients understand lab results, schedule appointments and get answers to healthcare-related...

In pilot, generative AI expected to reduce clinical documentation time at Baptist Health

At Baptist Health South Florida, which includes 11 hospitals in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, providers were grappling with an overwhelming challenge of managing large amounts of information emanating from patient-provider dialogues. THE PROBLEM One major pain point was the amount of time cardiologists had to invest in documenting...

Improving the veteran customer experience and building trust

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), one of the largest cabinet-level departments, created the federal government’s first customer experience office in 2015 to better serve the 9 million military veterans and 55 million family members enrolled in its services. A year prior, the VA had found itself...

Generative AI roundup: IBM, Wolters Kluwer and others offer new products and services

Each day, more companies add generative artificial intelligence assistants to their products and services. This week, some of the biggest names in software announced integrations and implementations they say are safe and transparent uses of AI, while a healthcare IT industry research organization published guidance on automation, ethics and trust. IBM...

Patients benefit from AI-powered care navigator at Columbia Memorial Health

Albany Med-Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. THE PROBLEM CMH’s digital presence was not able to capture all the business opportunities in its area of influence. Patients would look for their...

Healthcare generative AI predicted to reach $22B by 2032

The Generative AI Tracker said this week the healthcare generative artificial intelligence market is valued at more than $1 billion as of 2022, but technology companies and investors will play a significant role in development. They'll team up with healthcare companies including providers, payers and others in the...