At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the department of psychiatry and behavioral health at Geisinger began experiencing a significant increase in demand for behavioral health services. THE PROBLEM The demand for services was most noticeable for adult psychotherapy services, with waits as long as several months and several thousand outstanding orders. Simultaneously, the department

Cerebras Systems, a provider of artificial intelligence computing chips for deep learning applications, will provide both hardware and software development services to Mayo under the deal announced during a presentation at this week’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. WHY IT MATTERS The artificial intelligence created from the anonymized Mayo Clinic data would eventually

All care delivered through UpDoc’s artificial intelligence-based remote patient providers would be prescribed by physicians or clinical pharmacists who oversee the platform, the company said in an announcement on Friday. WHY IT MATTERS UpDoc’s remote patient intervention technology leverages conversational AI powered by multiple large language models, including GPT-4, through Microsoft’s Azure Open AI Service, Google

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has appointed Stacy Sanders as the agency’s first chief competition officer. In that role, she will lead efforts to implement healthcare-focused elements of the president’s 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. WHY IT MATTERS As chief competition officer, Sanders will lead HHS in

New AI fall prediction tool gains ground in Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) is expanding the trial of its new AI-based fall prediction tool.  Co-developed with medical technology company Longway AI Technologies, the AI system was trained via a 3D convolutional neural network, a deep learning model that teaches a computer to process data the way

Deployment of artificial intelligence for point-of-care clinical decision support is in its nascency. Despite the media attention and proliferation of AI studies, translation to clinical practice is rare. Little evidence exists on best practices for deployment, particularly in emergency medicine. Emergency medicine serves as the frontline of healthcare and the integration of AI and clinical

In the coming decade, Australia is expected to carry out several digital health initiatives that it outlined in its recently published blueprint.  An accompanying Action Plan to the 2023-2033 Digital Health Blueprint explains each initiative and how target outcomes are going to be met in short, medium, and long-term horizons. Many of those initiatives, such as electronic

2023 was the year marked by AI. With the rise of general-purpose large language models ChatGPT, Claude and Bard, AI has become tangible and accessible for millions of people. There was no shortage of excitement, but also appeals for regulation of this powerful technology.  State of AI Regulation in Healthcare The EU AI Act was

Te Whatu Ora on the look for clinical coding AI suppliers Te Whatu Ora is seeking suppliers to join its AI-assisted clinical coding pilots for hospital admissions.  The said pilot aims to verify whether AI techniques help improve the speed and accuracy of delivering care by reducing time for clinical coding, which remains a largely manual

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. The technology and internet space have rapidly proliferated over the last