AI tools very rarely work as out-of-the box solutions, noted Zafar Chaudry, chief digital officer and chief AI and information officer at Seattle Children’s. When hospitals enter into contracts with AI developers to build tools that are the right fit, he thinks the two parties should share risk. That way, hospitals won’t be stuck paying for tools that don’t deliver results.
Healthcare organizations are starting to implement AI agents — autonomous, task-specific systems designed to perform functions with little or no human intervention. While initial adoption is focused mainly on non-clinical areas like scheduling and prior authorizations, experts predict that AI agents could eventually play a role in clinical decision-making, provided they meet rigorous safety and reliability standards.
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Massachusetts-based Be Biopharma will use the proceeds to build a team as it seeks to develop B-cell therapies for a variety of diseases.
The seed round for MDmetrix, which was founded in 2016, was led by Founders Co-op, and Arnold Venture Group and WRF Capital participated.
More than a decade ago, John Kahan, a Microsoft general manager, lost his infant son to SIDS. His team wanted to give back, so they spent hours of their own time developing a SIDS research tool.
The move to cloud-based systems in healthcare has gained significant momentum of late, notably with athenhealth’s recent acquisition of Beth Israel Deaconess’ webOMR, but skepticism and caution still abound in many corners, particularly in the hospital world. Seattle Children’s Hospital is one such provider in that camp, with Chief Information Security Officer Cris Ewell laying […]
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is launching what it calls Data for Health, a project that will explore how big data from a variety of sources well beyond healthcare can be used to inform consumers and help them live more healthful lives. The confluence of major investments in the promise of big data from health […]
I am not a doctor, but I do some of the same information gathering. When I am reporting at a conference, I use an iPad for all the same reasons a doctor uses one during patient consults. It’s small, it’s light, and it has an Internet connection. I can gather information in one place and […]
Health insurers and hospitals, usually on opposite sides, lined up together Tuesday to give Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler an earful about his proposed new rule for insurance-provider networks . Kreidler proposed the rule after complaints that consumers have been taken by surprise about narrower networks in insurance plans offered in the Affordable Care Act. Those […]