This month’s AI report includes news and updates from ViVE, Atropos Health, xCures, SuperDial, New Mountain Capital, Peterson Health Technology Institute, LookDeep Health, Carta Healthcare, Navina, agilon health, Brook.ai, OneStep, EBSCO, UC Health, Laudio, PointClickCare, Philips, Waystar, Ensemble Peerbridge Health, Movano Health, Incredible Health, Gozio Health, Hyro, & eClinicalWorks.
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By Zac Amos – The conditions of American health care have developed many positive and negative associations. The opioid problem is one of the most pressing crises in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Artificial intelligence could be an unexpected hero in the next era of this fight.
By William Hersh MD – It has been my practice in this blog in my last post of each year to reflect back on the year. Not so much to review everything that happened, but rather to give some general thoughts about what the field, my work in it, and this blog have accomplished and where things are going.
By Dr. Jans Aasman & Dr. Richard Wallace – Imagine querying a medical database to analyze patients with nervous system disorders, only to have the results include unrelated conditions like heart failure and burn injuries. These errors aren’t just technical nuisances—they can have life-or-death consequences in clinical settings.
By William Hersh MD – Although I consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be part of biomedical informatics, there is no question that AI has become very important on its own, in and beyond biomedicine and health. This is certainly reflected in the introductory course I teach to graduate, continuing education, and medical students.
This month’s AI report includes news and updates from Philips, AWS, Eko Health, HealthEdge, Codoxo, Terrebonne General Health System, Inflo Health, Insilico Medicine, Quris-AI, Nortis, Teladoc Health, Veradigm, ModMed, Before Health Intelligence, Interlad, SoundHealth, athenahealth, Oracle, SmarterDX, & more.
By Zac Amos – Preventing unnecessary hospital readmissions is critical for improving patient outcomes and controlling healthcare costs. Each readmission adds to healthcare costs and disrupts a patient’s recovery, impacting quality of life and increasing risk.
By William Hersh – I recently published a paper in the journal npj Digital Medicine looking at how well generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems perform in my well-known introductory biomedical and health informatics course.
By LuAnn Kimker, RN, MSN – November is Diabetes Awareness Month and a good time to reflect on the importance of data-driven insights in addressing diabetes care gaps. Here are five to check out.