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.

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Stanford HAI lookback: Best-read blog posts of 2024

The year 2023 saw a shift toward open-source AI models, surging investments in generative AI and increasing AI regulation.

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Providers, payers share actionable experiences involving healthcare AI

A large venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage healthtech companies has a tip for AI startups targeting the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare-specific AI: How to multiply successes and head off accidents

Given the rapid proliferation of AI-equipped medical devices across U.S. healthcare, unintended effects should surprise no one. 

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FDA taking the long view of generative AI in healthcare

The FDA’s fledgling Digital Health Advisory Committee (DHAC) only held its first meeting last week, but it has already committed its thinking to writing. 

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5 ways to let AI raise patient satisfaction, elevate provider performance

It’s been years since AI proponents started promising big returns on healthcare providers’ investments in the technology. The results have yet to catch up with the pitches. What’s the holdup? 

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When life sciences met artificial intelligence

The pace of AI adoption is quickening in the sector, which includes biopharmaceuticals, digital health, clinical diagnostics and medical devices.

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AdvaMed itemizes AI imperatives for ‘the entire healthcare ecosystem’

If you work with healthcare AI, you owe it to patients, families and communities to keep certain principles top of mind in everything you do. 

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6 things high-achieving orgs do to wring real value from AI

What makes an organization an AI leader? Demonstrating success in one of two pursuits. 

Around the web

California-based Acutus Medical has said its ongoing agreement to manufacture and distribute left-heart access devices for Medtronic is the company's only source of revenue. 

The scam took place over a period of seven years, resulting in Medicare being billed for more than $70 million in fraudulent claims for unnecessary scans. 

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.