How Often Do LLMs Hallucinate When Producing Medical Summaries?
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst released a paper this week showing that large language models tend to hallucinate quite a bit when producing medical summaries.
How Can Hospitals Best Leverage Multi-Cancer Screening Tests? Providence Researchers Aim to Find Out
Providence recently launched a study to help learn more about how health systems can use multi-cancer detection tests in clinical care. Three years ago, Providence became the first health system to use Grail’s Galleri test, which screens patients for more than 50 kinds of cancer.
What Healthcare Can Learn from Costco
The path forward is clear: employers must evaluate their health plan the same way they do their Saturday shopping excursion.
How Integrated Real-World Data Leads to More Meaningful Results
In order to understand the current state of the healthcare system it is essential to have comprehensive sources of real-world and integrated data linked with data from across the healthcare ecosystem.
Commons Clinic Launches $100M Center to Advance Value-based MSK Care
Commons Clinic — a value-based physician group providing musculoskeletal care to patients in the Los Angeles area — announced the launch of its Center for Spine Economics, Outcomes & Research. The center will research and test new models that move spinal care out of the hospital and into community-based accountable care networks. The startup plans to invest $100 million in the center over the next decade.
VR Can Alleviate Brain Tumor Patients’ Anxiety During Treatment, Study Finds
AppliedVR teamed up with the National Cancer Institute to study the feasibility of VR to alleviate anxiety in brain tumor patients undergoing imaging scans. The research partners recently announced interim analysis results from their clinical study — they said that not only would VR intervention be a feasible option to reduce patients’ anxiety, but that patients would report high satisfaction levels as well.
Headspace Health calls for third-party researchers to study company’s impact on mental health
One area in particular Headspace Health is looking for researchers to study is the impact of the company on underserved populations. It is looking for peer-reviewed research proposals from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, healthcare institutions and other researchers.
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What’s Keeping Healthcare CIOs Up at Night: How to Improve Patient Satisfaction by Handling Calls More Efficiently
Health systems have spent billions on portals while investments in modernizing the voice channel — the dominant preference of healthcare consumers — have taken a backseat.
Study shows tech-based program improves workers’ mental health, productivity
The peer-reviewed research is among the first to examine the effectiveness of the new crop of digital mental health startups. It looked at people enrolled through their companies in a mental health platform developed by Spring Health.
At HLTH, a case for empowering patients in research
At HLTH, leaders of the Michael J. Fox Foundation shared the importance of including patient voices in research, and how engaging patients has led to important findings in Parkinson’s research.
Health2047’s new company plans to use AI, research access to improve clinical decision making
Called RecoverX, the company will leverage AI to mine evidence-based research, medical charts, patient conversations and test results and provide clinical insights for clinicians in real time.
Research institute green-lights $254M for 28 studies
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded the funds to studies that span a range of healthcare issues, including maternal care, suicide prevention and clinical effectiveness research in arenas like telemedicine and diabetes.
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The Promise of Value-Based Care and MedTech Innovation
Monica Vajani, Executive Director for mHUB’s MedTech Accelerator, discusses how mHUB is helping innovators transition healthcare towards value-based care.
Through $1.5B campaign, Weill Cornell Medicine to invest in precision medicine, debt-free medical education
Weill Cornell Medicine has launched a campaign with the goal of raising $1.5 billion that will be used to invest in research initiatives, including a precision medicine enterprise, and to fund a scholarship program that helps students who qualify to graduate debt-free. So far, the health system has raised $750 million.
Cancer doc: To boost minority participation, we have fliers in our clinic saying “Ask me about a clinical trial”
Minority groups get left out of clinical trials and studies for many reasons, including lack of access, awareness and trust in the healthcare system. But, according to panelists at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine, researchers along with patient advocates can help tackle these hurdles by working together and being intentional in their approach.
Cleveland Clinic, IBM launch 10-year tech-enabled research partnership
The healthcare provider and technology giant have entered into a 10-year partnership that will leverage AI, cloud and quantum computing capabilities to accelerate research. The collaboration will include the first private-sector installation of the IBM Quantum System One.
Google rolls out health research app
Google rolled out a Health Studies app, a rival to Apple's research app. To start, it will offer a study on respiratory illness in conjunction with Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Cancer research nonprofit looks to improve representation in clinical trials
Stand Up To Cancer, a nonprofit that supports funding for cancer research, launched a new initiative to expand minority representation in clinical trials. The nonprofit will seek proposals later this year to fund projects researching cancers that disproportionately affect members of a specific racial or ethnic background.