Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

Telehealth can provide significant value when it comes to managing and monitoring patients with CVD or suspected CVD. A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association explores the latest details on this evolving treatment option. 

Amazon expands telehealth presence, offers primary care for $9 a month

Televisits will cost $9 a month or $99 per year and are facilitated by One Medical. 

November 13, 2023
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Experienced neurologist interviews generative AI, comes away impressed but not intimidated

ChatGPT can be a little sneaky. Recently asked if it’s ever messed up when helping physicians make clinical decisions, it only came clean with examples of stumbles after being pressed on the matter.

November 8, 2023
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3 healthcare jobs at very low risk of replacement by AI

This past summer McKinsey Global Institute projected almost one-third of workplace activities in the U.S. will be automated by 2030, driving something like 12 million “occupational transitions.” 

October 24, 2023
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4 ways to usher in ‘smooth scaling’ of generative AI

What does it take to scale the technology from a toe in the water to a full-on swim? 

October 19, 2023
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Healthcare AI and HIPAA compliance: 5 key legal questions + answers

Training AI for use in healthcare requires feeding algorithms patient data, and lots of it. This opens data custodians—typically hospitals—to various points of potential legal exposure.

October 10, 2023
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Federal AI security center established, called an ‘overwhelming win’ for businesses, hospitals

The AI Security Center, AISC for short, has as its inaugural leader U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone.

October 4, 2023
Kumar Aditya, director, information technology, Atlantic Health System, explains how the system automated more than 60% of its radiology prior authorization workflow.

How Atlantic Health automated its radiology prior authorization workflow

Director of IT Kumar Aditya explains how the New Jersey hospital system automated more than 60% of its radiology prior authorization workflow.

October 3, 2023
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3 unrelated business deals worth a collective $11B turn heads in healthcare

This week has seen a cluster of healthcare-related business moves valued in the billions with a B.

September 28, 2023

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The recall includes specific lots of five different medical devices used to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, one of the leading voices behind efforts to create a new Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about where things stand today.

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